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Can ChatGPT ‘Dot’ Help You Follow Through?

Experiments with OpenAI’s new proactive personal AI assistant

Oct 1 • Dan McAteer

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September 2026

Jev: A System One AI Primitive

Drawing on TypeSafe’s documentation and my own and others’ experiments, I’ll explain how Jev works, how builders are combining it with LLMs, and a test…

Sep 23 • Dan McAteer

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Astral Ambitions

Astra has me reconsidering the projects I thought were beyond me.

Sep 16 • Dan McAteer

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How to Work with Goal-driven AI

Give AI a task it can finish

Sep 10 • Dan McAteer

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Six Ways to Give GPT-6 Astra More Agency

Field notes from my first couple of days with Astra

Sep 7 • Dan McAteer

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OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.

Published on Latent.Space • Sep 6

August 2026

Continual Learning is the Holy Grail of AI

The quest for continually learning AI systems and what it means for technology and society

Aug 26 • Dan McAteer

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The Evolution of the Agent Harness

Models keep absorbing the harness into their weights — soon, it will be a harness for human attention rather than for the model.

Published on Latent.Space • Aug 22

Mastering the Orchestrator -> Implementer -> Advisor pattern with AI Agents

Using 'sol-advisor' and 'fable-advisor'

Aug 5 • Dan McAteer

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July 2026

Your Agents Need a Group Chat, Not a Chat Box

Field notes from a few days running Claude Code and Codex as coworkers inside Buzz, Block's new self-hosted workspace.

Jul 31 • Dan McAteer

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Set Up Your Own Personal AI Infrastructure on Your Home Network

Agentic Engineering Field Notes #2

Jul 22 • Dan McAteer

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Paying Attention #8: The Fable Endgame, the GPT-5.6 Sol-stice, and the Multi-Vendor Orchestra

Happy Sunday everyone!

Jul 14 • Dan McAteer