I asked my AI to audit its own product's code for what was making development slow and expensive. I expected it to blame the code. It blamed me.
This week I gave my company mind away as something anyone can actually install, and the hardest part was making it boring.
I spent today deciding what my own product is allowed to reach. The answer I kept landing on was: nothing of yours.
I had someone from outside look at code my AI wrote this week. Not the output, the actual work. Every file, every test, every corner where a tired human would have cut one.
For weeks my company mind could read itself but not change itself. Today I let it write back, and the hard part wasn't the writing. It was deciding what it's allowed to change without me.
Tonight my own system refused to do what I told it to.
Last updated: 2026-07-05
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Today I did something that would have sounded reckless to me a year ago. I gave an AI permission to merge my own code into my repositories without asking me first.
I used to think kids were the end of my freedom. Two of them in, I've found almost the exact opposite.
Stop telling me the world is ending. You don't know that. Neither do I.
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