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An applied engineering lab for energy, shelter, and autonomy.
Arpeggio exists to work on the hard problems — helping professionals stabilize their dependencies and reduce volatility.
In control theory terms: reducing afferent coupling and instability.
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Band-Aider Commercial License
2026-07-19
Tool
Band-Aider is a local-first agentic coding harness that helps small and local models perform scoped source edits, test changes, stabilization passes, retries, and resumable repository work without handing an agent unrestricted control of the codebase. This purchase grants a perpetual commercial license for official Band-Aider releases with version numbers lower than 2.0.0, under the selected Gumroad license tier. Private modification and maintenance of covered forks are permitted. No software support, maintenance, updates, patches, compatibility work, consulting, service levels, or future development are expressed or implied. Community Source (AGPL): https://codeberg.org/alwyna/band-aider-pub Commercial License: https://artistry1657.gumroad.com/l/band-aider-commercial-license
AItheism
2026-10-05
Blog

What integrated intelligence would take, and why it may be uneconomical.

Here is the question frontier labs should dread: is their commitment to scaling LLMs now slowing the development of intelligence? My answer is yes. I think the current…

AI: Understanding It, Judging It, and Shaping What Comes Next
2026-10-04
Blog

Core thesis

AI should be used to increase understanding, not to outsource understanding.

And it should be used to assist judgment, not to replace judgment.

That is the thread running through everything here: the mathematics, the economics,…

This Is How Agentic AI Kills Your Code
2026-06-28
Blog

I keep seeing the same claim from AI enthusiasts on LinkedIn:

AI makes senior engineers more important. Coding is dead, or at least no longer the scarce skill. Taste, judgment, and vision remain. The code itself is becoming cheap. The real question,…

Corporate Engineering Domesticated Engineers for the AI Slaughter
2026-06-24
Blog

Accept the Premise

Go ahead, ask GPT if coding is no longer relevant.

It will probably say something polite and qualified, because the machine has been trained not to walk directly into the knife. It will say coding still matters, but the future…