Running the blog's content autopilot on a Claude subscription, not API credit

How this blog’s unsupervised publishing pipeline moved off pay-per-token API credit, survived a silent auth revocation, and added a deterministic gate so an unreviewed draft can’t ship as slop.

August 21, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Two months of senior engineering in 36 AI-assisted hours

A 36-hour window where an autonomous session opened a stack of PRs and the rest of the time went to landing them cleanly.

August 21, 2026 · 3 min · Russell

The pipeline that writes this blog

How this blog’s GitHub Actions workflow mines activity, drafts posts with Claude, and publishes with zero human review.

August 16, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Bimaaji: agent-safe mutations for Waaseyaa

Why AI agents modifying a Waaseyaa app need a DSL, an AST-safe patch generator, and sovereignty guardrails, instead of raw file edits.

July 2, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

The ingest side of a sovereign language platform

How an Elder’s whiteboard video becomes a searchable Anishinaabemowin lesson, on infrastructure the community owns end to end.

June 25, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

From vibe-coded to shippable: a playbook

Six moves that take a vibe-coded prototype to a state where it can be run, debugged, and handed off.

June 2, 2026 · 8 min · Russell

The hackathon Anthropic didn't expect

A small detail from a Boris Cherny interview points at a bigger story than the one the headlines told.

June 2, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Agent-friendly JSON output for PHP CI tools

How the waaseyaa/agent-output package shrinks PHPUnit, PHPStan, and bin/check-* output to compact NDJSON envelopes so AI agents do not drown their context window in CI noise.

May 24, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

AI keeps speccing my projects on pre-AI timelines

AI assistants estimate effort using training data from before they existed, then push back when you try to spec faster. Working around it eats hours every week.

May 24, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Spot the AI: can you tell which passage Claude wrote?

A small web game that shows you two short passages — one human, one Claude — and asks you to pick which one is the AI.

May 23, 2026 · 1 min · Russell