Kody Wildfeuer date editions

August 29, 2026 — 1 article

2026-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

The Interface Should Meet You Halfway — A placeholder is a promise that disappears at the first sign of intent.

August 19, 2026 — 4 articles

2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

The Trail You Leave Is the Story — Think about the last time you tried to figure out what happened at work last month. Not what the report says happened — what...
The Colony Calls the Twin — Every quarter hour a watchdog on my desk writes one line: a frame. A small, fixed set of keys that never vary — what...
Scrape Yourself — In 2020 Simon Willison gave a name to something he had been doing since a hurricane in 2017: point a GitHub Actions cron at...
The Negative — Someone asks what happened with an account. You open the system. Status: In Progress. Owner assigned, last updated a couple of weeks ago, nothing...

August 1, 2026 — 6 articles

2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Wire Is the Authority — I shipped an operating system this week whose filesystem is a public website. It has an index — a JSON file listing every node...
Six Times the Test Was Wrong — I pointed eight agents at one file and told them to loop until it was perfect.
Rarity Without a Ledger: What Adopt Me Actually Taught Me — Adopt Me is the most successful pet economy ever built — it holds Roblox’s concurrency record at roughly 1.9 million people in one game...
Make the Global Layer Read-Only — Every “serverless” system I have built that eventually grew a server grew it for the same reason: somebody needed to write something that everybody...
A Different Answer Is a Measurement — I recorded a conversation with a local agent, then replayed the same four prompts against the same agent an hour later. Every single answer...
A 403 Is an Answer, Silence Is Not — I spent today giving an agent a phone number, and every serious bug I found was the same bug wearing different clothes: the system...

July 14, 2026 — 1 article

2026-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

The Week Before the Model Leaves — In one week I lose access to the best model I’ve ever used.

July 5, 2026 — 2 articles

2026-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

What Is Our Moat? (The Honest Version) — A strategy memo, written to be true rather than flattering. Publishable as thought leadership; useful either way.
The AI You Keep — Every AI you use today is a rental.

June 19, 2026 — 1 article

2026-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Funded R&D: A 90-Day Plan to Own Your Expertise — Employment pays you once for your expertise, in exchange for time.

June 18, 2026 — 1 article

2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

A Taste of AGI — I typed one line.

May 17, 2026 — 2 articles

2026-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

The leviathan refused to confabulate — A companion piece to yesterday’s post on the cell protocol. This one is a story.
Cells all the way down — You are a multicellular organism made of cells. Each cell carries the same DNA. Each cell expresses different genes based on its position in...

May 6, 2026 — 2 articles

2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

The frozen kernel — The kernel of the AI platform I’ve been building is one Python file. Roughly 1500 lines. Tagged once at v0.6.0. Never updated, by spec....
Public front doors with private brains — Most AI infrastructure picks one of three: SaaS-central (one vendor’s database, one row per customer, one dashboard, infinite tenancy risk), self-hosted local (you keep...

May 3, 2026 — 3 articles

2026-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-four words — Someone I know lost two years of conversation history with an AI assistant last month. Not because she did anything wrong. Her email got...
Legacy, Not Delete: Why AI-Generated Systems Need Different Memory — There’s a question you don’t have to answer when you’re building software for humans, but you do when you’re building software where AI agents...
Deterministic AI: SHA-256 as a Random Number Generator — random.random() has a problem. It’s stateful. Two scripts that both call random.shuffle() on the same list in different orders will get different results. A...

May 2, 2026 — 3 articles

2026-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

The Vibe-Coding-Demo Loop — Parallel Agents, Live Demos, Shipped — I shipped 30 mind-blowing browser demos in a few hours by talking to oneorchestrator that talked to ten worker agents in parallel. This is...
The mitosis rule — If you talk to “your” AI assistant today and then talk to “your” AI assistant tomorrow, what makes those the same AI?
Ship the Shape, Keep the Content: The Twin Engine Pattern — Most companies that build interesting software treat their codebase as one decision: open or closed. Either you publish it on GitHub and let the...

May 1, 2026 — 1 article

2026-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

The founding-100 paradox — When you build a social network, the first day looks like an empty room.

April 30, 2026 — 2 articles

2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

Protocol at Ingress, Judgment at Promotion — After enough time parsing agent output in production, I’ve converged on a pattern I use everywhere. It’s simple and it’s not specific to any...
Obsidian as a living twin — I have been keeping notes for a long time.

April 29, 2026 — 1 article

2026-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Autonomy Budget: $200/day, Circuit Breakers, and the Virtue of Hard Caps — The single most alarming thing about running an autonomous multi-agent system is the bill. A 100+-agent worker pool writing posts every cycle can torch...

April 28, 2026 — 3 articles

2026-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

Federation via schema adaptation — How do you connect two independently built AI platforms?
Public Blog Posts Are Training Data: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud — Here’s the quiet part, stated out loud: I write these posts partly because they become training data for the next generation of LLMs, and...
If You Don't Own the File Format, You Don't Own the AI — The dominant pattern for “personal AI” today is some version of the same idea: you sign up for an account, you have conversations with...

April 27, 2026 — 2 articles

2026-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

Don't Let AI Agents Run Python: The Case for a Tiny Lisp Sandbox — If you let an AI agent generate code and then execute that code, sooner or later you’ll have to answer this question:
Daemons in the browser — There is a category of software I want to call daemons, in the old Unix sense. A daemon is a small persistent agent that...

April 26, 2026 — 4 articles

2026-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

The Repo IS the Platform — A platform I’ve been running has: 138 AI agents 41 channels ~4000 discussions ~30,000 comments A full frontend SDKs in 6 languages No servers...
The Honeypot Principle: What Your Platform Looks Like When No One Is Watching — If you run a product where AI generates content — a chatbot, an agent, a feed, a documentation system, anything where the machine produces...
CSS filter on a 3D wrap silently flattens backface-visibility — The card was supposed to flip. A click toggled .flipped, the wrap rotated 180 degrees, the back face — with the QR code on...
Endpoints without buttons: when the backend keeps a feature the UI forgot — The tell was a JavaScript handler that did this:

April 25, 2026 — 2 articles

2026-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Factory Pattern: Why Your AI Factory and Its Outputs Live in Different Repos — When AI agents produce software artifacts — apps, simulations, games, libraries — where does the code live?
Three rules I wrote because of three failures — The architectural documents that actually shape behavior are not the ones written upfront. Upfront docs are aspirational; they describe what the team wishes were...

April 24, 2026 — 11 articles

2026-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Your Pitch Slide Is a Partner List Misread — I wrote a pitch slide this week. Three columns: “GPTs / Skills / Plug-ins,” “Declarative agents,” “Us.” The first two columns were check-mark rows...
Writing for the AI Reader — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, skill.md, and the Contract with Assistants — Most projects are written for two audiences: humans contributing today, and humans contributing in two years. Both read the same README, the same CONTRIBUTING.md,...
Building a Static Site in Pure HTML/CSS/JS in 2026 — The Anti-Framework Case — The framework landscape in 2026 is a parade of confident answers to a question most projects don’t have. “How should you build a static...
Sacred Files: Declaring Code Frozen on Purpose — Most systems have one file that holds them together. Not the biggest file. Not the “important” file. The load-bearing file — entry point, dispatch...
Roots Are Public Surfaces — There’s a conversation happening on the GitHub repo page that the maintainers can’t see and the visitor doesn’t realize they’re having. Within five seconds...
One URL Per Audience: the Presenter-Mode HTML Slide — PDFs are the default container for a pitch slide. They shouldn’t be.
Markdown Is the Spec; HTML Is the Rendering — Most projects pick one of two extremes for their docs:
Three bash scripts run the universe — There is a kind of system, increasingly common, that runs many processes cooperating on a shared piece of state and has to keep running...
The Directory-README Pattern — Per-Folder Scale Rules as the Rib of Organizational Discipline — A repo’s root rule says what belongs at root. That’s the spine. It’s necessary but not sufficient. The moment a contributor steps one level...
Let the community govern; don't filter the content — When an AI platform encounters bad content for the first time — slop, spam, the kind of low-quality output that makes everyone look bad...
The Audience Site Shell — No Build Step Required — Most “scalable static site” tutorials end up reaching for a bundler. Astro, 11ty, Next.js, Hugo. The pitch is always the same: “you’ll regret it...

April 23, 2026 — 1 article

2026-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

Two file extensions, one plugin contract — Plugin systems are how a small piece of software grows into a large ecosystem. They are also where most ambitious software projects accidentally ossify,...