// dynaum.blog · notes on building with AI
Building things with AI,
written down.
Field notes from shipping software and games where the model is a real collaborator, not a demo reel. The specs, the decisions, and what actually held up.
Architecture Is a Step, Not a SeatI was handed a feature to design and put it in staging the same evening. The design document never existed as a document, and that missing artifact is the whole story about my job.
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agdog: Your Monitor Does Not Know What an Agent Is
A terminal monitor that groups CPU, GPU, and memory by the agent that owns them. Writing one new signature for it proved my own monitor had been hiding a third of my machine from me since July.
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You Can't Write a Context File for a Person
Every fact about my systems lives in a file an agent loads on demand. The signal I need to manage a person is the thing that never happened, and nothing missing produces a token.
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kubeside: The Refusal Is the Product
A Kubernetes client scoped to the developer who ships the app, not the operator who runs the cluster. It answers four questions and refuses everything else, and the refusing is the part worth talking about.
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How the Day Actually Runs
A real day building and running software with AI: predefined user personas aim every agent at the hardest person, parallel agents in worktrees do the building, and loops walk production all night as those same personas.
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The Model Was Never the Bottleneck
You gave everyone Claude and Copilot and the team ships at the same speed. The tool did its job. It made writing code nearly free and left every slower cost, the ones you never timed, sitting right where they always were.
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tmux Still Works. I Switched Anyway.
Nothing broke. My work changed shape, the tool did not, and after years of the same setup I wanted to find out if I was still able to move.
