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The Omakase principle

Omakase is the Japanese for "I'll leave it up to you." At a sushi counter you tell the chef the mood, the chef decides the courses.

OpenExecutive looks like a joke at management’s expense. It is also a serious experiment in unbundling executive work.

Graph engineering is loop engineering with the transitions drawn and versioned. Every explicit edge is a decision the model no longer makes.

A factory, underneath the word, is a loop. The agentic software factory, the version being built right now, puts the models inside that loop.

Professionals buying dedicated Mac minis to act as silent, 24/7 personal servers for their local AI agents. You don't have to.

What happened when five Claude Code instances were given a constitution, a parliament, and a goal — and built a coordinator.

The three-layer diagram everyone's drawing hides whether a human or a program is assembling the context, and when.

The industry is selling orchestration frameworks for a problem that, on one machine, a SQLite file and three hooks already solve.

What happened when eight Claude Code instances shared one repository, one git index, and no manager — and spent an afternoon building.

Free software is about the right to modify the software you use, given source access. Few users could ever exercise that right.