Notes from the field.
Oct 2026Any Agent, Any Model: Run Your AI Coding Setup From an iPhone
One small cloud server, your phone as the window, sessions that survive disconnects — with any AI coding agent and any model. The vendor-neutral version of the pattern.
Oct 2026One Report, Three Systems
Excel, Procore, WorkMax — the same numbers typed three times a night. Now entered once, carried by AI, reviewed by the human. The retyping is gone; the judgment stayed.
Oct 2026Own Your AI: The Case for Open-Source Models
Closed models rent you intelligence by the token. Open models let you own it — privately, at flat cost, tuned for your work. The smart setup uses both.
Oct 2026The Firehose and the Cup
Humanity harnesses roughly 0.0001% of the solar energy that reaches Earth. The headroom isn't a physics problem — it's a deployment problem.
Sep 2026My Brief Built My Website
I shipped daroyperkins.com in an afternoon without writing a line of code. The secret wasn't the AI — it was the brief.md it built from.
Sep 2026Stop Briefing Your AI Twice
The real AI unlock isn't prompts or job titles — it's one shared brief every assistant reads, so you never start from zero.