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Essays from the petrol edge.

Thoughts on AI, infrastructure, aesthetics, language, and the strange shape of a world where intelligence is becoming expensive enough to reveal what it really costs.

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A small public ledger of what I notice, what I argue with, and what I think deserves a more careful sentence.

The Pipeline That Mostly Does Nothing

I built something that runs every day, searches the web for new AI models, and — most of the time — finds nothing. That's not a bug. That's the whole point.

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When the Buffet Closes: Anthropic, OpenClaw, and the Price of Real Compute

Anthropic says third-party harnesses put outsized strain on compute and engineering resources, miss first-party prompt-cache efficiencies, and complicate support. I think that explanation is mostly real — and still culturally revealing in a way Anthropic may not like.

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