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Cognitive Debt

AI shifts concern from technical debt to cognitive debt. The code is easy now — but do you understand what it does? This reframing is changing how I think about vibe coding and its limits.

margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/

The Bitter Lesson, Applied

Most agent harnesses fail because they over-engineer what the model should handle. Scale beats cleverness every time — a principle I'm trying to internalize as I build tooling.

x.com/buckeyevn/status/2014171253045960803

Allostatic Load

Clearing accumulated stress makes laziness impossible. Productivity as a side effect of genuine rest — not optimization theater. Rest is the precondition, not the reward.

x.com/riansweetdoris/status/2019833629233324539

How the Shadow Fleet Is Capitalising on the Chaos of War

The FT's deep interactive investigation into the dark tanker networks profiting from sanctions evasion. Outstanding data journalism — the kind of visual storytelling I wish more outlets attempted. Spent an hour on this one.

ig.ft.com — Financial Times Interactive

AI · Business

The Missing Mechanisms of the Agentic Economy

O'Reilly on the infrastructure gaps preventing agents from actually transacting in the real world. Identity, payment rails, trust protocols — the plumbing nobody's building yet.

AI · Tools

The 28 AI Tools I Wish Existed

Sharif Shameem's wish list. Several of these are already half-built in my project folder. The overlap was unsettling in a good way.

Design · Things

What Is Sashiko? 8 Things to Know About Japanese Embroidery

Japanese repair embroidery as philosophy. The beauty in visible mending — a concept I keep returning to in how I think about building software.

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Writing · AI