https://prfa.me/writing Notes on building intelligence. Agents, markets, and shipping in public. en https://prfa.me/writing/the-market-priced-attention-not-code https://prfa.me/writing/the-market-priced-attention-not-code Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT The real arc behind SAM: a solo build, a $3.6 million peak, and over $104k in fees I never had to sell a coin to earn. https://prfa.me/writing/the-timeline-moved-on https://prfa.me/writing/the-timeline-moved-on Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fable dropped today. Crypto is at capitulation lows. An honest look at where the tools and the casino both ended up. https://prfa.me/writing/most-of-this-is-dead-now https://prfa.me/writing/most-of-this-is-dead-now Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A clear-eyed eulogy for the agent-token era: what was real, what was always going to die, and why both things can be true. https://prfa.me/writing/not-sure-this-makes-sense-anymore https://prfa.me/writing/not-sure-this-makes-sense-anymore Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT It's been a while. Honest accounting of stepping back from SAM: what I miss and what I don't. https://prfa.me/writing/the-month-defi-got-robbed https://prfa.me/writing/the-month-defi-got-robbed Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT April 2026 is shaping up as the worst month for DeFi exploits on record. The boring reason why keeps getting buried. https://prfa.me/writing/babysitting-the-agents https://prfa.me/writing/babysitting-the-agents Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What 'AI replaced the developers' actually looks like from inside: less writing code, more watching a thing that writes it and hoping it doesn't burn everything down. https://prfa.me/writing/agents-still-mostly-demos https://prfa.me/writing/agents-still-mostly-demos Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A year into the autonomous-agents narrative, the honest field report: most of it is still the same three screencasts on loop. https://prfa.me/writing/the-model-treadmill https://prfa.me/writing/the-model-treadmill Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new frontier model every two weeks, benchmarks saturated, and the only sane move is to stop chasing the leaderboard. https://prfa.me/writing/a-social-network-for-bots https://prfa.me/writing/a-social-network-for-bots Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Moltbook launched, MOLT ripped 1800% in a day, and everyone called it the future. It is peak AI theater. https://prfa.me/writing/opensam-and-the-slop https://prfa.me/writing/opensam-and-the-slop Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shipped OpenSAM, a lean Rust agent that runs on a Raspberry Pi, as the bear hit and the AI hype machine peaked with openclaw and Moltbook. https://prfa.me/writing/everyone-is-a-developer-now https://prfa.me/writing/everyone-is-a-developer-now Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agentic coding went mainstream, the floor fell out of output quality, and the bar for taste has never mattered more. https://prfa.me/writing/framework-to-product https://prfa.me/writing/framework-to-product Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Built a Solana agent framework for months, then had to build the first real product on it myself. Notes on the platform trap. https://prfa.me/writing/what-2025-actually-was https://prfa.me/writing/what-2025-actually-was Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Agents got real and the market got cooked. A dry read on the year from the desk. https://prfa.me/writing/the-part-where-you-burn-out https://prfa.me/writing/the-part-where-you-burn-out Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT After months of 8 to 16 hour days in a grinding bear market, the brain eventually says enough. An honest accounting. https://prfa.me/writing/nobody-claps-for-the-frontend https://prfa.me/writing/nobody-claps-for-the-frontend Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The framework works, the chain integration is done. What's left is the part nobody tweets about. https://prfa.me/writing/building-in-the-bear https://prfa.me/writing/building-in-the-bear Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Market's down 30% from the top, the tourists are leaving, and it's the best time I've had building all year. https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-pay-each-other https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-pay-each-other Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Integrated x402 payments into SAM so agents can transact on-chain. Notes on a real protocol that turned into a narrative in about a week. https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-trade-while-you-sleep https://prfa.me/writing/agents-that-trade-while-you-sleep Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Built AI agents to open longs, manage perps, and check balances around the clock. Then the market printed an ATH and flash-crashed $19B in 24 hours. https://prfa.me/writing/red-candle-same-code https://prfa.me/writing/red-candle-same-code Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT What it costs emotionally to weld your work to a price chart, and why the only sane response is to ignore it. https://prfa.me/writing/shipping-is-marketing https://prfa.me/writing/shipping-is-marketing Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Launched a Solana agent framework with a token bolted on. Notes on building in public when the public is a casino. https://prfa.me/writing/benchmarks-are-theater https://prfa.me/writing/benchmarks-are-theater Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT GPT-5 dropped to huge benchmark numbers and collective shrug. Leaderboard scores don't predict whether a model helps you ship. https://prfa.me/writing/context-over-prompts https://prfa.me/writing/context-over-prompts Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT The real leverage in AI systems isn't the prompt. It's what you plumb in front of the model before it ever reads a word. https://prfa.me/writing/models-that-change-weekly https://prfa.me/writing/models-that-change-weekly Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT The models churn faster than any abstraction layer can keep up with. Notes on staying sane while building on top of that. https://prfa.me/writing/the-usb-port-for-models https://prfa.me/writing/the-usb-port-for-models Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Model Context Protocol isn't a revolution. It's a boring wire format that quietly fixed the part where every agent needed custom glue for every tool. https://prfa.me/writing/safety-is-a-layer https://prfa.me/writing/safety-is-a-layer Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT On the actual engineering under 'responsible AI': input validation, prompt injection, and why agent safety is mostly boring infrastructure work. https://prfa.me/writing/rag-and-the-memory-problem https://prfa.me/writing/rag-and-the-memory-problem Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Notes on building greflect, learning why naive RAG disappoints, and what it actually takes to give a model a usable past.