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in the driver's seat.

satya · bengaluru
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field journal

defai builder. essays, notes, projects, sessions. one list. time-ordered.

shipping now

alphaengine — a confidential layer for defi. live at beta.alphaengine.trade. main thing right now.
fix: pendle pt pricing now uses ratio not usd-denominated equity · 2h ago

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subagents are an org chart you can rewrite at runtime.

- managing six agents in parallel is managing six junior engineers — except you can change their reporting line mid-task.

matrix · hot-take

the orchestrator problem: when one model speaks for the others.

- claude killed a codex audit mid-thought. the essay is about who gets to decide when a worker has contributed enough.

matrix · essay

claude code just killed a codex audit mid-thought.

- 'codex is still thinking. i have enough from both consultations now.' gemini had already finished. claude didn't wait.

4 min · agents

today's pricing announcement is a compute tax dressed as a launch.

- you're not paying for capability anymore, you're paying for context length.

matrix · hot-take

the cold start problem — half-read, the chapter on atomic networks is the strongest.

- from The Cold Start Problem — Andrew Chen

book · distribution · building

is it just me, or does cc rewind soft-lock the composer?

- rewind to a specific checkpoint, try to type, nothing takes. only ctrl+c → resume fixes it.

garry tan's tweet about cofounder fights is the most accurate compressed-wisdom on YC twitter this year.

- from @garrytan — on cofounder dynamics

tweet · cofounders · ops

trained as a mining engineer. now i mine MEV.

- risk frameworks from mine-safety class are still the mental model i use when i read smart contracts.

sonnet 4.6 outperforms opus 4.7 on my issue-triage skill.

- 6/7 vs 4/7 on the eval. for narrow, well-defined tasks the smaller model wins. saving this.

matrix · model-note

context engineering is the entire job now.

- the prompt isn't the prompt. the issue file is. the codebase is. you're staging a scene.

matrix · essay

ben thompson on anthropic's pricing — compute is the new cloud bill.

- from Anthropic's Pricing and the Compute Tax — stratechery

article · ai · economics

building is cheap. the trap i'm climbing out of.

- every artifact i ship is an experiment. the real job is shipping with distribution in mind.

5 min · reality-check

andy on agents-as-junior-collaborators.

- an agent is a junior collaborator who can read very fast and remember nothing.

matrix · quote

same tool name across two MCP servers silently picks the last-loaded one.

- repro in 3 lines. workaround: alias one via the config. foot-gun for anyone running > 1 server.

agentic fund manager, not a demo.

- what i want alphaengine to feel like by may 22. encrypted strategies, TEE validation, on-chain reputation.

pack context into the issue, not the prompt.

- the issue file IS the agent prompt. it took me a while to stop treating them as separate.

3 min · agents

reading book summaries is consuming food in smoothie form. that line broke my pkm habit in half.

- from @nabeelqu — on tools-for-thought

tweet · pkm · learning