Builder Log
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Builder Log is where I document experiments with agentic AI, automation workflows, local systems, and the messy work of making useful tools reliable. These notes are less about the tool itself and more about what the build teaches.
Claude Code Just Turned Off the Permission Prompts — And the Data Says That’s the Safer Choice
Starting August 14, if you’re on Claude Code with a Pro, Max, or Team plan, new sessions default to something…
I Built a Cinematic Ride Video With AI — Here’s the Actual Workflow, and Where It Broke
I ran a 60-second motorcycle ride video through a full AI production pipeline recently — not a single “type a…
An AI Video Editor Where the Agent Actually Drives the Timeline — What Vyra Gets Right
A new video editing tool crossed my radar this week called Vyra, and it’s a good example of a pattern…
Claude Cowork Now Lives in Your Chrome Sidebar — Here’s the Governance Question That Actually Matters
Anthropic shipped an update this week that’s easy to undersell as “a browser extension got better.” It’s more interesting than…
I Built a Personal Command Center with AI — And It Updates Itself
What if your morning routine didn't start with checking five different apps? I stopped treating AI as a chat tool…
Adding Real-Time Web Search to Your AI Agent: Tavily, Exa, and What Changed
Tavily and Exa add dramatically better web search to an AI agent. What each does, when to use which, step-by-step…
What Background Jobs Taught Me About Reliable AI Agents
Moving 18 scheduled AI jobs from cloud to local looks like a cost exercise. It is really a reliability audit:…
When AI Memory Gets Too Complicated: Lessons from Replacing a Broken Plugin
A memory plugin that controls what the agent remembers controls the agent. What I found when I audited mine, why…
What a Week-Long AI Gateway Incident Taught Me About Reliability
A week of gateway instability reveals failure modes that stable operation hides. What I rebuilt — and the five design…
The Hook System Trap: Three Gateway Crashes and One Design Lesson
Three real crashes from the same misconfigured hook pattern — and the architecture insight that finally stopped them. The lesson…
