off the happy path
hi, my name is kayla and i can’t leave a working tool alone. i break software for a living; the rest is committed, so technically it’s research.
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Et Tu, Subagent?
I handed a subagent one small, bounded task and went to bed. I came back to sixteen hours of paranoia and a job it never actually finished.
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I Spent a Week Staring at Bands
Chapter two of the keyboard screen. I spent a week staring at bands so I could stare at bands.
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One Line of Modulo
The AI said impossible. Reddit said only the vendor app could touch the screen. It was one line of modulo.
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The Tale of Two Tobys
It was the best of names. It was the worst of names.
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Nobody Was Driving
The worst one looked like a memory leak. iTerm went sludgy, the fans came up, the load average hit 401.
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True love never dies (it just files for insolvency)
Fitbit bought Pebble in 2016 and switched it off. Nine years later it came back, and I made a noise I'm not proud of.
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Unknown skill: buddy
Claude Code's terminal pet lasted a week before an update deleted him. Mine's a skill: deterministic, decaying, and update-proof.
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Nothing I own is stock
I have never left a device the way it shipped. Not one. On the compulsion to personalize everything I own, and why stock never lasts.