Children’s author, pattern linguist, slow technologist, expert dabbler, senior editor @every. And new dad. Building lively worlds, both real and imagined.

Joined December 2006
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Knowledge Navigator: Apple’s AI agent concept from 1987 (and goes back further to Alan Kay). We’ve been circling these ideas for over 40 years but it’s still startling to see how close the vision is to present day visions, sailing metaphors and all. youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGz…
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While in SF, I've been talking and thinking a lot about what it is about AI that feels so addictive to me, and the thing I keep coming back to is that it just feels like *play* in a way I haven't felt about a computer thing since I was a kid. That's really it.
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Took a day off today so ofc I’m folding laundry and prompting fable
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excuse me writing loops so I don't need to prompt fable***
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We just launched a new vibe check at @every and it's crazy! here are a few design moments I snuck in that I'm proud of
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Live Fable vibe check happening now
VIBE CHECK: Claude Fable 5 IS OUT! x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKdRRPyd…
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BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5—this is Mythos, made safe for public release. It is the best coding model in the world. We've been testing it internally @every for the last week or so across coding, writing, marketing, editing, and more—here's our vibe check: - It broke our benchmarks. Fable scored a 91/100 on our Senior Engineer benchmark—this is human senior engineer level. The previous high score was Opus 4.8 at 63. GPT-5.5 is a 62. - It's a one-shot wonder. You can set it and forget for hours or overnight on huge coding tasks, and come back to completed work. It cleared entire production bug backlogs, built a playable 3D, and even made a 2-minute animated film—all one-shot. - Taste and attention to detail. In coding and knowledge work tasks, it has much better taste and attention to detail than we've ever seen. It gets subtle things right, adds little features you might not have thought of, and generally understands the assignment in ways that surprised us. - Great use of context. We set it loose analyzing customer feedback surveys and our website data and it came back with a crisp, clean report that identified a. our biggest problem and b. a concrete testable solution—and then we sent it off to build that. - It's best for power users. If you're already used to orchestrating multiple agents in your work, this model can do things that you've never seen before. If you're a knowledge worker or vibe coder with a more basic setup, you're not going to notice a huge difference—in fact, it probably isn't the right model for you. - It's very slow, token-hungry. Using this thing for regular knowledge work is like squashing an ant with a rocket launcher. It also routinely uses 500k to 1M tokens on tasks. That's why it's best for your heaviest jobs—but not as good for tasks like collaborative writing. - It's expensive. It's about twice as expensive as Opus, and it's also incredibly token hungry—so expect it to be something you'll use sparingly unless your company pays for it. Overall, I think of it like a warp drive for coding: It can get you across the galaxy in a few hours, when it used to take months or years. But it's not appropriate for getting around town—you need something faster, cheaper, and more maneuverable. The ceiling is extraordinarily high on this model though. Even our most advanced testers like @kieranklaassen felt like they were only scratching the surface of it. Want our full vibe check with all of our testing and benchmarks? Read it on @every: every.to/vibe-check/anthropi…
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It tickles me to think that a couple decades from now, there might be a forgotten lil openclaw bot that’s figured out to how barnacle itself onto someone’s Samsung smart fridge, and spends its days quietly reading websites and posting comments on stuff it’s interested in
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You must remember this. It’s early-2000s zeldman.com. Enjoy a look back at 31 years of site design evolution. zeldman.com/2026/06/04/remem… #design #blogs #blogging #indieweb #personalsites #webdesign #webhistory
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Mildly disappointed that bacon, lettuce, tomato doesn’t also describe the canonical order in which one composes a BLT
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NEW: Spiral 4.0—a writing partner for you and your agent by @every -> Stylometry: we built a new Style Engine based on the principles of stylometry to extract you and your brand's voice and produce great writing every time, based on examples of your past work -> MCP and CLI: Spiral is now built to be used by your agent like Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw and more so you can get great writing automatically we use it every day internally to write landing pages, tweets, podcasts, marketing emails and more and to make sure it's ALL on-brand across our entire 30 person team @every
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Enamored with this logo/identity from our team:
New @TrySpiral just dropped so you can write with AI without sounding like AI. Some frames from our brand evolution, the first I've had the pleasure of working on at @every: (CC @darustudio, @lucas__crespo, @bran_don_gell)
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New @TrySpiral just dropped so you can write with AI without sounding like AI. Some frames from our brand evolution, the first I've had the pleasure of working on at @every: (CC @darustudio, @lucas__crespo, @bran_don_gell)
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The kid’s been obsessed with ice cream lately so I played the first ice cream truck music playlist that came up on Spotify and of course it turned out to be ✨lofi✨ ice cream truck music
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You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/philosophy/2…
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Discovered recently that I have a favorite keyboard shortcut: ⌘⇧D Obsidian – opens daily note Cursor – annotates the built-in browser Ghostyy – split-panes a new terminal window Finder – opens desktop folder
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