Brain Rot Is the Default Setting
All three of my coding agents are capped, so this week runs on my own head. The research says the break is overdue: used the default way, AI makes the work easier and you worse at it.
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Know the Code, Write the Spec
ETH Zurich had 100 students build apps by prompt alone. Computer science knowledge predicted results best, writing skill added its own share, and frequent LLM users scored lower.
3 AIs Hit the Limit
Codex mid-task, Claude mid-loop, Grok on every review, all inside one day. Two limits came with a percentage and a reset time, one with a status code. The silence around all three was the bug.
One Year. Two Builders.
A full year of running my kids’ days. Two builders in training, grades at the ceiling, and an afternoon they earned.
Day Four. One Side Effect.
Legs and arms in numbers, 102.0 kg on waking, 120/86 on the cuff, a puffy face under watch, and finer syringes on the way from TRT Colombia.
Day One. Logged.
Thirteen weeks start with a printed sheet, a working kitchen, and 26 recorded sets. Monday is on the record. Tuesday is legs.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sunday Is Part of the Program
Leg day, a recharge meal and a home spa: the parts of recovery that never need a dashboard.
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Addicted to the Gym
You know you’re addicted to the gym when Friday night means barbell rows at 9 p.m.
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Incompetency
I deal only with competent people. Everyone else is OUT!
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The Popcorn Is Still Warm 🍿
Anthropic’s full MHS launch reveals a coalition across labs, robots, cameras and boards—with an open-source release planned after the private research preview.
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Bruh, AI News Is Cinema Now 🍿
Claude just got a hardware standard for microscopes, robot arms and autonomous labs. In the same news cycle, Nvidia reportedly moved to buy Hugging Face. The cyberpunk trailer is becoming infrastructure.
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MONSTER 2.0 — The Needle
The signed MONSTER 2 packet now closes the Genotropin mark, no-DAC CJC, corrected dosing card, supplies, COP 2.24M NAD+ credit, delivery plan and monitoring calendar.
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Six Days, Three Kilos, Not a Verdict
The Aug 20 and Aug 26 readings differ by 3.0 kg. The scale is moving downward while the bridge, nutrition and activity are in place—but six days cannot separate fat from water or prove the cause.