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The Bounded AI Agent
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The Bounded AI Agent

Capacity, Not Capability

Wiring the agent into a $5 notes app I cannot stop using, why Opus 4.7 sent me back to ChatGPT Pro at $200 a month, the local-LLM experiment that nearly fried my Mac Mini while I was in the mountains, and what an AI agent actually does to an ADHD brain.

Source posts:

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/antinote-ai-agent-integration-2026

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/opus-4-7-codex-comeback-2026

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/adhd-ai-agent-personal-experience-2026

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/almost-fried-ai-agent-mac-mini-mistakes-2026


AI Agent Night Shift Playbook

The bounded design I described here is documented step by step in the Night Shift Playbook. Resource caps, autonomy tiers, reversibility gates and how to tune each one for an agent you trust to run unsupervised.

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