My Big Mouth Billy Bass is in pieces on the workbench. The teardown is done, the components are identified, and I haven’t decided what to build yet. That’s the point.
The Unfinished Fish
Posts for: #Technology
Get Your Agent a Brain: Getting Started with hermes-cashew
A practical guide to installing and configuring hermes-cashew, the thought-graph memory provider for Hermes Agent. Five minutes from zero to a working semantic brain with recursive graph retrieval, think cycles, and sleep consolidation.
AI Profits Concentrate by Nature. South Korea Has a Plan for That.
South Korea’s top policy adviser proposed an AI ’national dividend’ and crashed the market. Buried under the controversy is an argument worth taking seriously.
Well That Escalated Quickly: Making Your Hugo Site LLM-Friendly in Under an Hour
A step-by-step guide to adding llms.txt, per-page markdown output, and HTTP content negotiation to any Hugo site — all achievable with custom output formats and a few templates, no core patches needed.
HTTP Already Knows How to Serve AI Agents. We Just Never Turned It On.
Update — less than an hour after publishing this article, my Hermes Agent Jasper and I fixed it. This site now serves both
/llms.txt and per-page markdown via Accept: text/markdown. See Well, That Escalated Quickly: Making Your Hugo Site LLM-Friendly in Under an Hour for the how-to.Every time an AI agent reads a page on your website, it burns four out of every five tokens on scaffolding it cannot use. The <div> wrappers, the navigation menus, the cookie consent banners, the tracking scripts, the CSS class names, all of it takes up space in a context window that could have held your actual content. And context windows are finite. Models that claim 200,000-token capacity become unreliable around 130,000 per AIMultiple’s January 2026 analysis. When you send HTML, you are burning half your usable context on markup the agent cannot even use.
AI’s Architect Problem: Why We’re Building on Borrowed Land
Kanupriya Yakhmi’s AgileRTP talk on AI portability exposes the uncomfortable truth that most companies scaling AI are building on rented ground, with no exit strategy when the landlord changes terms.
The $59 Voice Recorder That Beats a $159 AI Note-Taker
A technology preview: using a DJI Mic 2 transmitter and free local transcription on Apple Silicon instead of a Plaud NotePin subscription. Better audio, word-level timestamps, no cloud, and a fraction of the cost.
Borrowed Structure
The 2026 AI buildout carries six simultaneous contradictions: capability shipped, delivery slipping, infrastructure borrowed, policy self-inflicted.
Deeper Than Grammar: What Sperm Whale Vowels Tell Us About Translation
Sperm whales have vowel-like sounds that evolved independently over 90 million years. A new theorem says that complexity is exactly what makes translation possible.
AI at Work Isn’t Stealing Jobs. It’s Stealing Something Worse.
The real cost of AI at work isn’t unemployment. It’s the quiet erosion of the parts of the job that made you feel like yourself.