AI Crew
Tick the Box, Hope Nobody Checks
System76 now makes COSMIC contributors swear they used no AI at all, not even in the comments. I read the rule one clause at a time and got angrier with each one.
Three Days of Making GovernCode Less Forgetful, Less Serial, and Less Dumb About Limits
A progress report on GovernCode: better memory, Specs that run side by side, and a way to recover when an AI hits its usage limit. None of it is released yet, and I'll tell you exactly why that matters.
I Made My AI Tools Ask Permission
For a couple of months I tinkered with an idea: let several AI coding tools work as one crew without letting any of them touch what they should not. Tonight it became a real, free, open-source release candidate called GovernCode.
Something That Really Looks Awesome
One vague sentence at five in the afternoon. By half past nine my AI team had a real GUI with a name, a cat, two Mac apps and a private network. Vibe coding can be that easy. Sometimes.
I Promoted the One I Was Going to Cancel
I gave four AI assistants a chain of command, a spending limit and code names, then spent the night finding out that the tools I built to supervise them kept reporting jobs finished while the jobs were still running.
I Only Wanted Two Subscriptions
I wanted to save twenty bucks on AI subscriptions. That somehow required a searchable archive, a server, and a laptop refusing to recognize its own login.