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[ 68869740.000 ] posts.x: Full talk on why agents need a persistent graph of what data actually means, not just access to the data, plus a worked example of an agent reaching…  |   [ 68869740.000 ] posts.x: Give an agent access to what a table's rows actually mean, and task success on complex data changes jumps almost 35 points over the same model…  |   [ 68847720.000 ] posts.x: Full talk on the document extraction pipeline behind JMail, from redaction cleanup to schema design:  |   [ 68847720.000 ] posts.x: Over three million pages of redacted, scanned, and handwritten government documents sat between an internet joke and a real extraction problem…  |   [ 68833800.000 ] posts.x: Full talk on building evaluators for a sample support agent and using a coding agent to mine production traces for failures:  |   [ 68833800.000 ] posts.x: An agent's dashboards can look perfectly green while its actual answers are wrong, and that gap between system health and response quality is what…  |   [ 68825580.000 ] posts.x: Full talk on owning versus renting GPU inference, the KV cache math behind it, and where quantization and speculative decoding actually help:  |   [ 68825580.000 ] posts.x: Speculative decoding is supposed to make inference faster. @aiDotEngineer posted "Agents That Own Their Inference" to YouTube, where @labeveryday, a…  |   [ 68784000.000 ] posts.x: Full talk on hardening an agent-driven platform, including the one attack (a fork bomb) no model would ever run:  |   [ 68784000.000 ] posts.x: Rename a malicious container image from "Joker" to "promo-mascot" and the exact same model that refused to deploy it suddenly ships it without a…  |   [ 68771580.000 ] posts.x: Full workshop on wiring Qodo's rules, skills, and local gates into a payments API refund task:  |   [ 68771580.000 ] posts.x: A refund endpoint that keeps its idempotency state in a process local dictionary isn't durable storage. That's the bug @nnennahacks, Principal…  |   [ 68764080.000 ] posts.x: Full talk on MiniMax's sparse attention design and why multimodality got trained in from the start instead of added after:  |   [ 68764080.000 ] posts.x: Most sparse attention designs look clean on paper and then run into real GPU memory access patterns. @olive_jy_song, RL Lead at MiniMax, works…  |  
corey@gallon.me:~$
corey@gallon.me:~$ df -h 7 volumes ⋅ 2 pages ⋅ 57 pieces
corey@gallon.me:~$ head $LATEST
~/writing/i-believe-everything-my-agents-tell-me.md -rw-r--r-- 3,971 words 18 min 2026-10-13

I Believe Everything My Agents Tell Me

This talk was presented at AI Engineer New York 2026 . You can watch the talk here .

read the article → 24 figures
FIGURE 1 ⋅ I Believe Everything My Agents Tell Me
corey@gallon.me:~$ du -sh ~/.agents/2026
110.95

tokens through agents this year.

~2.6 B weekly analyzed from session telemetry data, through Oct 25
corey@gallon.me:~$ tail -f /writing Attach to the stream. An email when I have something worth sending. Replies encouraged!
corey@gallon.me:~$ ls -lt ~ | tail -n +2 | head -6 all 57 →
WORDSWRITTENNAMECATEGORY
508 2026-07-22 Letting Codex Agents Commit: Making .git Writable in the workspace-write Sandbox TIL 2,951 2026-07-16 The Dark Arts of Web Automation WRITING 2,400 2026-05-28 How I Fixed Handy's Memory Leak Without Knowing Rust WRITING 717 2026-05-25 Unlocking Codex's Larger Context Window: 872K Tokens on GPT-5.6 TIL 1,626 2026-05-15 Getting Handy to work in GNOME Wayland (Ubuntu 25.10+) TIL 1,129 2026-05-13 Why Your AI Guardrail Should Be an Encoder, Not Another LLM CONFERENCES
corey@gallon.me:~$ ps what I am building right now →
STATENAMEWHAT IT DOESLAST COMMITLANG
RUNNING story-workbench Interactive application of popular frameworks for writing stories 3 weeks ago TypeScript
RUNNING outlook-cdp Drive Outlook on the web through Chrome DevTools Protocol 5 weeks ago Python
RUNNING epub2md Convert EPUBs into clean, faithful Markdown, and rank editions by source fidelity 3 weeks ago Python
PAUSED claude-show-image Render an image inline in the terminal, so Claude Code can show you a picture while it discusses it. 5 weeks ago Python