hi, i’m hank. i work on ai systems and write about what i find along the way.
latest posts
We Have the Model, Why do We Need You?
Theres no Such Thing as Agentic Engineering
AI Layoffs are Tacit Admissions of Failure
AI productivity improvement is used as a scapegoat to cover up business or operational failures.
Reflection is All You Need
Agent based functionality should be built iteratively by starting with minimal specification, and looping through alternating usage and refinement steps.
MCP vs CLI: The Token Tax
MCP tools are great for organizations, but for local agentic work the unix toolchain is already in the model's weights. And it's free.
latest microblog
Semantic HTML Explorations
Some cool HTML tags that I just learned that I was not aware of before and how I worked them into the site.