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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

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April 6, 2026

Your AI Agent Will Eventually Do Something Stupid: A Guide to AI Security 101

AI agents can act on your data, install packages, and run commands all without asking twice. This is the security intro nobody gave you when you started building.

April 6, 2026

Momentum vs. Alignment Tax: Hidden Costs in Your LLM Sessions

What looks productive in an AI session often hides a whole layer of alignment work we do not even notice while we are doing it.

March 26, 2026

How AI Tools Talk to Each Other

An interactive guide to the three communication patterns that power AI tools and why tool chains break when context runs out.

March 18, 2026

AI 102: From Vocabulary to Systems

Knowing what a prompt or model is doesn’t mean you'll be successful with AI. This post breaks down the three layers that improve your AI systems work: prompts, workflows, and tool chaining.

March 18, 2026

AI Vocabulary 101

Smart, curious people keep hitting the same wall with AI: they don't have the words to name what they don't understand. Here are the terms that turn vague frustration into specific, solvable problems.

March 4, 2026

AI Has Entered the AI Development Loop

A quiet line in the GPT-5.3 Codex announcement revealed something bigger: AI is now participating in the process that improves AI. Why that changes development velocity.

February 26, 2026

Why Capable AI Keeps Getting Blocked

When AI systems feel uncontrollable, it's not an irrational response for organizations to restrict them. Here's what that pattern signals about where we are.