Archive - Retired Techie

Claude Is Scary Too

When “Safer” AI Starts Asking the Wrong Questions

Apr 26 • Stephen Pao

On Repeating Patterns

A small story about AI, fabric, and writing things down precisely

Apr 22 • Stephen Pao

Different Rules

Watching the ground shift

Apr 13 • Stephen Pao

A Spring Catch-Up

Meals, milestones, and a couple of things that didn’t quite work

Apr 5 • Stephen Pao

March 2026

A Familiar Town Hall, a Sharper Edge

What people are asking now, and why protest keeps coming up

Mar 24 • Stephen Pao

Separating Meaning from Voice in Product Marketing

How AI enables a clearer division of responsibilities, and where that division breaks down

Mar 16 • Stephen Pao

Vibe Coding in Practice

What building a real scheduling tool taught me

Mar 8 • Stephen Pao

The Unreliable Assistant

Notes from the bleeding edge of AI deployment

Mar 2 • Stephen Pao

February 2026

Running OpenClaw AI

Three tradeoffs I did not expect

Feb 22 • Stephen Pao

I Switched My Internet Provider

It Will Not Be Enough

Feb 15 • Stephen Pao

Teaching a New Assistant How to Be Useful

Lessons from a day of configuring OpenClaw permissions and constraints

Feb 13 • Stephen Pao

Grilling, Suburban Life, and Impact to Health

And some props out to the Seattle Seahawks!

Feb 10 • Stephen Pao

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