Watch apps that answer one question at a glance, agents that refuse to invent evidence, and tools for small online shops. Lately the thread is AI agents: what they can really automate, which product experiments hold up, and what small shops need once agents start shopping. I’m finishing an M.Eng. at Cornell.
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What I’ve been learning about AI, and the project each lesson came from.
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RIRRI'S, the little 3D shop where my projects live, asked a phone to draw 846 separate things every frame. I brought that down to 531 without changing anything you can see. This is the method in seven steps, with the numbers from each and what to try on your own scene.
things I noticed, tried, or kept thinking about
This is what ‘open to agents’ looks like when a store actually designs for it. The MCP server matters less to me than the agent profile: each agent gets its own place in your account and a spending limit, like an authorized user on a credit card. Trust finally has a shape you can see and take back.
This is the cleanest example I’ve seen so far of why ‘legible to agents’ and ‘open to agents’ are two different problems.
It sounds dramatic, but it’s the honest frame: an agent with access is like a new hire who is great at the task and doesn’t know the norms. Microsoft’s answer is permissions that change with the task, which is Walmart’s idea from the other side of the counter. It also sells the security product, so I read the framing with that in mind.
Model access is turning into plumbing. When GPT-6 runs inside Google’s platform and Codex can point at it, the model stops being the moat, and the question becomes who owns the place where the work happens.
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Sometimes I'm full and still want dessert.
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A personal agent that knows your route, your schedule and what your family likes to eat doesn't just rank gas stations differently.
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Remote, Ambient and the Focus-driven mood were checked on a physical watch.
Learned from AgentWatch
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While making a cover, the model told me, very confidently, that my three best-performing covers were all real photos.
Learned from making covers for my posts
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Learned from Visual Notebook
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Learned from Visual Notebook
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Learned from World Briefing Buddy
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Everything else is in the archive.
Drag or scroll the rail, or use the arrow keys. Each piece opens its case study in RIRRI’S.
AGENTWATCH2026
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TAROT WATCH2026
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GD PHARMA2026
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NICHE KITCHEN2026
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AgentWatchAn Apple Watch remote for real Codex and Claude Code sessions, with an ambient black dog.Project record: AgentWatchTarot WatchA once-a-day tarot ritual for Apple Watch, driven by the Digital Crown.Project record: Tarot WatchGuangdong Pharma PlatformPharma market intelligence, with an official-data pipeline behind every figure.RIRRI’SA tiny 3D konbini on a rainy evening, with a study house next door.Project record: RIRRI’SProject2JobFrom one job description to evidence you can defend.Project record: Project2JobIntoMateAn AI companion that learns only from experiences your body actually confirmed.Sims 4 Mod StewardCheck, plan, back up, apply and undo changes to the Mods folder.Visual NotebookStructured notes in, hand-made-looking notebook pages out.Niche KitchenSearch for problems, not products.Pawppy Growth OSA daily command desk for one Etsy shop.AI Image StudioOne private link, from brief to delivery.World Briefing BuddyAn audio-first daily briefing that can say “nothing today”.Short logs, written when a project actually moves
RIRRI’S
On phones, the store now draws 531 things a frame instead of 846, and looks exactly the same.
RIRRI’S
The House gets a soft study interior, a window view and its own weather.
GD Pharma
Every remaining city now has audited source data, with replay.
Tarot Watch
One reading system for every card: reading content as data, no fallback.
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