I Love Trios 😈
Three coding assistants, one desk. Same notes, same rules, same review path — and still no bake-off.
MONSTER 2.0 — The Shadow
Months of preparation, and every piece lands on the same morning. Tomorrow, 7 September 2026, MONSTER 2.0 starts. Then I do what Dorian Yates did: disappear, and come back when the work is done.
Grok Joins the Party
I added Grok Build alongside Claude Code and Codex: Grok 4.6, maximum reasoning, automatic approvals, and fixes that make the setup work.
Graph Engineering: Evidence In, Guesswork Out
How I gave my AI assistants a map of current instructions and clearer rules for when tasks can proceed — with the results explained in plain English.
Astra × Fable: Full Power, Less Waste
Astra at Ultra. Fable at max. Shared rules, native hooks and deterministic automation — configured and tested, with workload savings still to measure.
Building With Gratitude
When the building is going well the appetite sharpens, and the view narrows with it. Then my family handed me a present made of paper.
HGH Delivered: How to Mix, Dose and Store Genotropin
The prescription is written in IU. The syringe is printed in U-100 units. They are not the same ruler, and the dose lands between two lines. The arithmetic, the mixing procedure, and the 28-day clock.
GPT-6 Astra: Priced Like a Frontier, Gated Like a Weapon
OpenAI shipped the first model it rates Critical for cyber capability. It costs 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol, its headline benchmark carries a harness-shaped asterisk, and most accounts cannot run it yet. What it really costs, and what to configure.
Everything Else Is Washed Out
Sixteen days on two compounds and nothing else. 101.4 kg, a new low, the plateau broken. Friday the order lands and a nurse teaches me to mix HGH. Monday MONSTER 2.0 starts.
Fable 5.1 Is In Your Max Plan. It Is Not Free.
Fable is included on Max at up to half your weekly limits — a ceiling inside the pool you already pay for, not a free second one. Input and output cost twice Opus 5; cache reads cost half. Whether it nets out cheaper rests on a contested efficiency claim.
Blue Blood, Narrow Window
The label says 2,250% of the B12 requirement. Your gut has other plans. What octopus actually delivers — copper, selenium, taurine, blue blood — what it does not, and the cook that decides between rubber and mush.
Sunday Is Part of the Program
Leg day, a recharge meal and a home spa: the parts of recovery that never need a dashboard.