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      <dc:date>2026-09-04T19:10:36-07:00</dc:date>
      <description>Full development automation requires production context to become part of the agent’s working context. An agent needs to understand what happens after it deploys to decide what to change next. That changes what the development loop has to include.</description>
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      <title>Using VMs</title>
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      <dc:date>2026-09-02T07:35:04-07:00</dc:date>
      <description>I’ve started using VMs to contain Codex.

One useful side effect is that my development environment is moving wholesale into the VM. Tart has been particularly impressive.</description>
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      <title>A small personal site</title>
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      <dc:date>2026-09-01T07:00:00-07:00</dc:date>
      <description>I’m rebuilding my personal site as a small, text-first microblog.

It’s deliberately simple: a chronological feed, permanent links, and an archive I own.</description>
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