The original article in this series argued that no LLM product was deliberately designed for personal, persistent-agent, or continuous coding use. Anthropic shipped one piece of the answer on June 15. xAI shipped the other on May 19. This is what they are, why they exist, and how to architect
Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source projects. It reflects only my personal views, is not professional advice, and does not represent any organization, employer, or official position. If you have been hearing about "AI agents" and wondering what people
Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source projects. It reflects only my personal views, is not professional advice, and does not represent any organization, employer, or official position. MNEMOS v5.0.1 · Apache 2.0 · In production since December 2025 Memory is
Or, what happens when a small ARM SoC, a quiet weekend, and a 45-year-old Disney movie collide on your desk Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source projects. It reflects only my personal views, is not professional advice, and does not represent
Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source projects. It reflects only my personal views, is not professional advice, and does not represent any organization, employer, or official position. This is the follow-on to "All our tests passed. The agent was still
Agentic COBOL: how a 1959 idea shipped our 2026 LLM plugin Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source projects. It reflects only my personal views, is not professional advice, and does not represent any organization, employer, or official position. Last week, CI
Two merged PRs, a handful of rookie mistakes, and the quiet point where architectural thinking finally becomes actionable Published: April 22, 2026 Read time: 6 minutes Topics: Open Source, AI-Assisted Development, Systems Architecture Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source projects. It
Why I built my own memory substrate for long-running AI agents — and what "co-author" actually means in practice Published: April 22, 2026 Read time: 6 minutes Topics: Open Source, Agentic AI, Systems Architecture Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation and my own hands-on work on personal open-source
Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation using publicly available documentation and pricing. All model recommendations are based on my own hands-on testing with OpenClaw in the context of agentic skill development. It reflects only my personal views, is not professional advice, and does not represent any organization, employer, or
Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience and interpretation of publicly available information. All product evaluations are based on my own hands-on testing in the context of personal agentic skill development — not general benchmarking, sponsored evaluation, or professional recommendation. It represents my views alone — not any employer or organization — and is
Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience and interpretation of publicly available information. It represents my views alone—not any employer or organization—and is not professional advice., Fifty-three years. That's how long it took us to go back to the Moon. Apollo 17 returned in December 1972. Artemis
Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience and interpretation of publicly available information. It represents my views alone—not any employer or organization—and is not professional advice. Editor's note: This is V2 of the essay, originally published on April 10, 2026, the night of the Artemis II splashdown.