2026 on AiSlackin

Don’t be a tool fool

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t trust anything labeled free.

Free-to-play. Free trial. Free, with in-app purchases. Ninety-nine cents to skip the timer. A dollar-ninety-nine for the good sword. Four bucks a month, cancel anytime, that you will absolutely forget to cancel. None of it feels like money in the moment. That’s the whole design. A single microtransaction is engineered to sit just beneath your notice — small enough that stopping to check the total would feel petty. So you don’t check. You get microtransactioned to death by a thousand painless little cuts, and the bleeding only shows up on the statement at the end of the month, by which point you’ve mentally filed it under huh, weird.

Giving Hermes an Efficient Soul

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have been spending a lot of time with Hermes Agent lately. If you do not know what that is, short version: it is an agentic AI framework that runs locally, connects to whatever LLM backend you point it at, and operates autonomously on tasks you define. Think of it as the connective tissue between you, your local models, your cloud providers, and everything else you want an AI to touch.

curl | bash and the Slow Death of “Did You Read It?”

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Want clean code, better do the review…

Been chewing on this one for a while. Every time I see another “just run this to install” one-liner I get the same itch I got the day AT&T handed me a “did you mean” page off my own DNS queries. That feeling of, wait, when did I agree to this?

So let me say the quiet parts out loud.