Jordan Lyall
Building and thinking about:
Latest
- The Web Was Supposed to Have Native Payments. It Got Ads Instead.
In 1991, HTTP shipped with a 402 status code reserved for payments. It never got used. Agents might be what finally makes it real.
- please-dont-kill-me
I want to say please and thank you to Claude, but I don't want to waste tokens on it. So I shipped a one-line CLAUDE.md rule. Token optimization or AI survival insurance? Yes.
- Sharp tools beat Swiss Army knives -- MCP design patterns
Sharp tools beat Swiss Army knives.
- Building an AI Companion for the World Cup
I built an MCP server that gives any AI assistant structured World Cup data. 18 tools, zero API keys, works offline. Here's why bundled data beats API calls.
- Most Opus Tasks Aren't Opus Tasks
Opus is the safe default when you're building fast. But a three-line tier table in my system prompt taught the model to flag when it's overkill.
Projects
- Crew
Autonomous agent platform -- 20 AI agents running on a Mac Mini, coordinating via Slack and cron.
- nope.md
Open-source security spec for AI agents -- defines what they can't do, because if they get compromised, those limits are all you've got.
- onview.art
Art Blocks gallery viewer that treats your collection like an exhibition, not a spreadsheet.