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Updated when the chapter changes. For depth on any of these, see the linked pages.
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    <p class="eyebrow">Through April 2026</p>
    <h2>AI as real infrastructure.</h2>
    <p>~5,000 AI-assisted engineering sessions across 30+ repos in the last six months. The thesis: the frontier model isn't the moat anymore — the scaffolding is. Local 9B models can ship code if you give them docs, persistent state, and explicit task tracking. <a href="/projects">Detail on /projects.</a></p>
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    <p class="eyebrow">Always running</p>
    <h2>Three peer products on Cardano.</h2>
    <p><strong>ADA Handles</strong> — the platform. <strong>HAL</strong> — the minting layer that ran ~4K chained transactions faster than the chain settled. <strong>K.O.R.A.</strong> — the autonomous Discord ops agent that runs day-to-day operations across both. <a href="/work">All three on /work.</a></p>
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    <p class="eyebrow">In flight</p>
    <h2>Cutovers, subhandles, recovery.</h2>
    <p>Smart contracts moving to Aiken (DeMi and SubHandles done; Personalization next). TX-building library moving to <code>@cardano-sdk/*</code>. SubHandles continuing to ship — hierarchical handles via Aiken. Social-recovery design surface at <a href="https://secrets.handle.me">secrets.handle.me</a> — fallback for self-custody loss without reintroducing custodians.</p>
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    <p class="eyebrow">Off-screen</p>
    <h2>Coaching baseball.</h2>
    <p>Two boys, multiple seasons. Same sport I played through school plus some adult league.</p>
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