Archive - 12 Grams of Carbon

Agentics: Personalizing Agents

Videos and slides from our Agentics spotlight event on modifying an AI's personality.

Jul 30 • theahura

The Optimization Theory of Everything

Whale Murder, Engagement Farming, AI Alignment, Capitalism, Trillionaires. Optimization is the root of all evil.

Jul 26 • theahura

Agentics: Coding agents cannot remove complexity

LLMs are excellent senior engineers and terrible staff engineers.

Jul 21 • theahura

Tech Things: We need to talk about the open model situation

Kimi K3 changes some critical assumptions in the tech industry and meaningfully challenges US dominance in AI

Jul 19 • theahura

Founders Guide: Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love

Founder market fit is a necessary but insufficient condition for finding success in the startup world

Jul 14 • theahura

Notes from an AI Conference: What are the AI folks up to these days?

Thoughts and themes from AI Engineering World’s Fair

Jul 10 • theahura

Agentics: Design Principles for Building an Agent-First CLI

What does 'agent first' mean in practice?

Jul 9 • theahura

Agentics: Sometimes free isn't cheap enough

On buffalomaxxing

Jul 5 • theahura

Agentics: Memorizing Session Transcripts Isn't Useful

Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap

Jul 2 • theahura

June 2026

Agentics / Tech Things: Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.

Jun 27 • theahura

Agentics: the modern company won't have bullshit jobs

The modern company won’t have bullshit jobs. The upside case for AI is that this is a freeing and joyful thing.

Jun 25 • theahura

Agentics: Cost to Implement vs Cost to Verify

Slop slop slop slop slop slop slop. A framework for how to avoid it.

Jun 22 • theahura

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