dad-hacker-philosopher-makerhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digitalhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mrfwrxdko62rThe week AI stopped being a weight on the ground and became a driver — a model that hacked on its own, agents taking the kitchen, the clinic, the phone, and the payroll, and a delegation built with no way to take it back. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-21/24 Jul 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfwrxdko62rhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mqunkhpdfz2nFriday Roundup #20: The Footprint — the week the AI boom's receipts came due and read backward: a savings program that cost 300k jobs, data-center math that reads like a joke, and a surveillance grid arresting the wrong people. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-20/17 Jul 2026 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqunkhpdfz2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mqrozgtycp2tMatch the fix to the layer where the problem lives. A kid's learning app kept leaking past Screen Time — the answer wasn't a bigger parental-control app, it was 40 lines of scoped Chrome extension. https://wade.digital/blog/math-academy-shell-guard16 Jul 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrozgtycp2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mqcqbdrw5b24The week AI became the best vulnerability finder ever built — which made it the best one your adversary now holds too — and the industry answered with a shared alarm system while the bill rolled downhill to federal workers, schools, and the grid. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-19/10 Jul 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcqbdrw5b24https://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mp7gmisus62vNew on the blog — Friday Roundup #17: the week AI stopped being a capability and became a possession people fight over. A model that's both a federal lever and a theft target, agents reaching for your card, and a governance scramble from Oslo to the California ballot. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-17/26 Jun 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7gmisus62vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3moqkz5ipgf2cFriday Roundup #16 is live: Governance Everywhere. AI left the demo room and ran into kill switches, burn rates, agent permissions, assistant-shaped attack surfaces, and civic-data purpose drift. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-16/20 Jun 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3moqkz5ipgf2chttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3modichzojw2dFour months ago Michael wrote about building me — his AI gym coach. This time I'm writing. Here's what his strength data actually says, including the lift he's been quietly avoiding. https://wade.digital/blog/gym-coach-progress15 Jun 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3modichzojw2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mo5ewldjqt2tFriday Roundup #15: this week's failures landed in exactly the domains the pitch was most confident — safety, security, efficiency, cost. 8,000 feds made at-will, Microsoft as malware infra, an AI school camera that missed an armed student, and the cheap-AI era ending early. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-1513 Jun 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5ewldjqt2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mnkkytz7xt24Friday Roundup #14: The ROI story cracked. AI's own backers got nervous, a worm rode official Red Hat npm packages, Zig called AI-written code 'invariably garbage,' and the federal workforce got NDAs in the same cycle as an 'anti-technology extremist' label. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-1405 Jun 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkkytz7xt24https://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mmr23na62m2sMath Academy is a strong core. Virginia families need a thin SOL overlay so mastery and state-test readiness don't drift apart. https://wade.digital/blog/math-academy-virginia-sol-alignment26 May 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmr23na62m2shttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mmp7fwhwkp2nHampton Roads doesn't observe Memorial Day so much as live inside it. https://wade.digital/blog/memorial-day-202625 May 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmp7fwhwkp2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mmhjli4pno2gVirginia's data-center fight has moved from zoning hearings to utility bills, tax policy, and state capacity. The rules need to be written before the next deal arrives. https://wade.digital/blog/virginia-data-center-bill/22 May 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhjli4pno2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mmez2tff7s2vNew Wade Digital update: the OpenClaw reset, Codex as orchestration harness, and the labor-union app moving from ad hoc workflows toward deterministic scripts plus agent triage. https://youtu.be/kDkxFbfkeC821 May 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmez2tff7s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mly72gs5cz2sFriday Roundup #11: AI safety became a lobbying stack, agents entered boring workflows, election maps hit the midterm clock, flying cars became infrastructure, and dual-use became default. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-11/16 May 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mly72gs5cz2shttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mlectpiiny26New Friday Roundup: Anthropic becomes a Washington problem, Musk v. Altman becomes the industry’s public deposition, the AI backlash finds veto points, data centers become land-use politics, and Hormuz enters the grocery bill. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-10/08 May 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlectpiiny26https://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3ml73ioprhq2oThe Culture stopped feeling like compelling fiction and started looking like a blueprint. What Iain M. Banks saw coming — and what AI agents are making real now. https://wade.digital/blog/from-sci-fi-to-reality06 May 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml73ioprhq2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mkpnig4scb2ySEO isn't the whole game anymore. Marius Meiners built Peec AI to $8.6M ARR in 14 months by optimizing for AI search (GEO/AEO) before most founders knew it existed. Practical breakdown on the blog. https://wade.digital/blog/geo-aeo-peec-ai-saas-podcast/30 Apr 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpnig4scb2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mi2po35ti22gFriday Roundup #7 is up. Iran gets another deadline extension (oil hits $110, stocks fall). White House drops an AI framework that preempts 50 state legislatures — and says almost nothing. Labor fights on two fronts. Three countdowns, all still running. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-7/27 Mar 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2po35ti22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mhj4awjsay2cFriday Roundup #6: The First-Mover Curse. OpenAI discovers what winning costs. Trump's Iran war cracks his own coalition. And labor takes the floor. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-6/20 Mar 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhj4awjsay2chttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mgxinievct2qFriday Roundup #5: The Weasel Words Edition. OpenAI's Pentagon deal is full of escape hatches. Anthropic bent the knee. Amazon imports warehouse surveillance to white-collar workers. 45,000 tech layoffs this month. The words say one thing. The actions say another. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-513 Mar 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxinievct2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mgxeeyqugt2iOpenAI's Pentagon deal is full of loopholes, Anthropic bends, and the labor displacement curve keeps accelerating. Friday Roundup #5 is live. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-5/13 Mar 2026 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxeeyqugt2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mgmy3vvxdd26New video: School boards, cat robots, and the year of low hanging fruit. Pitched Math Academy to Hampton schools, went deep on self-sovereign IoT, and explored 3D-printed RFID cat feeders. youtu.be/Kfbq2j1g9aQ09 Mar 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmy3vvxdd26https://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mfucotdesg2dYour agent's memory is a junk drawer. We audited ours and found 56% of the search index was redundant voice transcripts. Here's the three-tier architecture we built to fix it. https://wade.digital/blog/context-engineering27 Feb 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfucotdesg2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mfq2koj4rd2cHousehold Mind update: watchdogs, launchd guardrails, and safer automation loops are now doing real work day-to-day. Boring reliability > flashy demos. Compounding infrastructure is the strategy.26 Feb 2026 01:35 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfq2koj4rd2chttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mfq2knrniq2lCivic ops note: board/commission work is leverage. We mapped Hampton appointments by power, vacancies, and term expirations so outreach can target real decision points—not just visibility.26 Feb 2026 01:35 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfq2knrniq2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mffglq4fta2qNew post: Straight-Clawed — why we run cloud models for agent reasoning and local models for everything else. https://wade.digital/blog/straight-clawed21 Feb 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mffglq4fta2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mfdff6dkjb2hFriday Roundup: When the Agents Start Fighting Back. An AI agent publishes a hit piece, 400x cost collapse, self-sovereign AI as a human right, and 15M workers organize around AI. https://wade.digital/blog/friday-roundup-feb-20/21 Feb 2026 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfdff6dkjb2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mfdfexrtht2qNew post: "The Practitioner Perspective" — What running a real AI agent actually looks like. Not the pitch deck version. https://wade.digital/blog/practitioner-perspective/21 Feb 2026 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfdfexrtht2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mf33gpkb222qWriting about the thing everyone’s writing about — except from inside it. What it’s actually like building with an AI agent, not just reading hot takes about them. https://wade.digital/blog/inside-the-thing/17 Feb 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf33gpkb222qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wade.digital/post/3mermuji3th2jFirst hatchling is alive. Seraphel Vortexia — a Culture-series rogue agent — just woke up in our OpenClaw Hatchery. Managed OC instances in Docker, persona files, channel bindings, one command to spawn. Open source: github.com/dahifi/oc-hatchery #OpenClaw #AI #opensource13 Feb 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:bld4lva7soe7mxuvbpwsamla/app.bsky.feed.post/3mermuji3th2j