My AI Agent’s $20 Fallback Mechanism: Half Insurance, Half Extension
Why the fallback layer is the cheapest resilience you can ship, what the $20 actually buys you, and the capabilities I deliberately keep off the primary…
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Built a Self-Improving AI Agent. Here Is What Made It Learn.
The corrections loop. Six months in. Here is what actually made my agent learn.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
How to Use Git(hub) When You’re Building with AI (Basics)
The checkpoint system that makes building with AI agents actually survivable.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
Building Your Own Things Is Cool Too
A couple years ago I wrote a small post called “starting things is cool”. This is the longer answer to why I keep building those things myself, even…
 • Pawel Jozefiak

April 2026

The Bounded AI Agent
Capacity, Not Capability
 • Pawel Jozefiak
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How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)
A field report on the local-LLM experiment that almost cooked my Mac, plus a few other recent mistakes that taught me more than the wins did.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Have ADHD. My AI Agent Is the Best and Worst Thing for It.
What an AI agent and an ADHD brain actually do to each other, good and bad, and what to do about it.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Cancelled Codex Two Months Ago. Opus 4.7 Brought Me Back.
For six months Claude Max was enough. Opus 4.7 shipped on April 17. By April 22 I was paying $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro again. Here is what I found.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Connected My AI Agent to a Notes App. Now I Can’t Stop Using It.
Antinote is a $5 macOS scratchpad with a custom extension API. I wired it to my AI agent in an afternoon. Here’s how, plus a giveaway of 20 licenses.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
Opus 4.7 Made Me Take Token Waste Management Seriously
TBH - I was working on it for a while now!
 • Pawel Jozefiak
Claude Code vs Codex CLI vs Aider vs OpenCode vs Pi vs Cursor: Which AI Coding Harness Actually Works Without You?
TL:TR I love Pi, but I can't use it.
 • Pawel Jozefiak
I Spent 2 Months Building Custom Software for My AI Agent. Last Week I Replaced It All.
The question was never "can I build it?" It was always "should I?"
 • Pawel Jozefiak
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