Thoughts & Takes

On movies, code, and everything in between.

04.01.2026 3 min read movie

Undertone: The Best Horror Movie Since Hereditary

Undertone is built on inversion — in the camerawork, the sound, the religious imagery — and it's so dense with detail that one viewing isn't enough. 5/5, go see it in theaters.

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03.28.2026 4 min read movie

Project Hail Mary: A Fun Ride That Doesn't Quite Reach the Stars

The film adaptation of Andy Weir's sci-fi novel is a very entertaining blockbuster with great chemistry and humor, but restrained cinematography and a trimmed runtime keep it from joining the pantheon of adaptations that surpass their source material.

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03.27.2026 8 min read article

The Model Isn't the Agent: The Harness Is

The third post in my orchestration series. Why the wrapper around the model matters more than the model itself, the six patterns I actually use, and the bugs that pushed the system from MCP server to CLI to Claude Code skill.

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03.18.2026 7 min read article

I Turned My AI Review System on Itself — It Found 16 Issues

I pointed my multi-agent orchestration system at its own source code. Three AI agents debated the code that runs them. The results were uncomfortably accurate.

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03.18.2026 5 min read article

I Let 3 AI Agents Debate My Code — Here's What They Found

I pointed my multi-agent orchestration system at my own website and ran a debate-pattern code review. The results were genuinely useful — and a little humbling.

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03.15.2026 2 min read movie

The Title Sequence That Assaults You Into Paying Attention

Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void opens with four minutes of pure visual violence. It's the best title sequence ever made.

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03.01.2025 1 min read movie

On Rewatching Films You Loved at 16

How returning to formative movies reveals more about who you've become than what the film actually is.

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02.14.2025 1 min read essay

The Terminal Aesthetic: Why Devs Love Monospace

An exploration of developer culture's obsession with terminal-inspired design and what it says about us.

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