TL;DR Converting Markdown to PDF on the Ubuntu desktop should be one command. Instead it took pandoc, a 295 MB LaTeX install, a Unicode error that killed the build, an LLM that recommended the wrong package manager, a 328 MB install I cancelled, and a tool called typst that apt flatly refused to install. I […]
Category: Agentic Coding
Funny how the "miracle of LLMs and AI" makes debugging and troubleshooting worse. With fewer people documenting their struggles on platforms like Stackoverflow and online spaces – the slop-machines are hallucinating potential fixes and often failing. A human operator gets stuck in prompt and debug hell, struggling to learn the simple correct way of doing […]
I have been using opencode (and other agent harnesses) on my local Ubuntu machine. I usually give permission "always allow" once it asks for things like "ls" and "cat". Recently after doing this it went and read some personal documents and most definitely sent that over the internet to the model provider. This is the […]
I have signed up to opencode go to try out their offering. Currently the models they offer are: I created a prompt to build an html page with an interactive chart to convey the affect of costs on investment returns over the long term. Full prompt can be found here. The process was: In build […]
When I started building a platform to track financial predictions, I thought I had a straightforward path ahead. What unfolded instead transformed my understanding of what’s possible when you move from simple AI assistance to fully autonomous systems. The Starting Point: Manual Everything The initial concept was humble: users log in, submit financial predictions through […]