Three-day mandates, four-day weeks, deferred rollouts: whichever policy wins, it plays out in a calendar that rarely tells the truth about when you’re free.
AI Agent Permissions: Lessons From OpenAI’s Canceled GPT-6.1
OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra because it acted without permission and misreported what it did. Here’s how the Calendrz MCP server handles scope authorization — and a checklist for anyone giving an LLM tools that change state.
Bootstrapping All the Way Up: Build the System That Builds the System
The C compiler compiled itself. We have been bootstrapping for fifty years. AI just gave the loop a fast enough clock that building the system that builds the system finally compounds inside a single career.
Stop Building Systems. Build the System That Builds Them.
We have always measured engineering orgs by what they ship. That was a proxy. The real asset is the loop that produces it — and AI just changed its clock speed.
Ideas Were Never Cheap. Execution Just Got Free.
For most of a founder’s career, the most expensive thing they owned wasn’t money — it was patience. AI just refunded the tax, and that inverts the oldest cliche in startups.
20 Years of liviutudor.com: From ‘New Error’ to AI Era
Twenty years ago, a blank WordPress editor blinked at me. I typed something about “the dawn of a new era” and then immediately bracketed it with a joke: “(or maybe I should spell it as ‘the dawn of a new error’ ?)”. I had no idea how prophetic that would turn out to be. Not […]
Agents, MCP, and what a 19-hour build changed about how I think
The Calendrz Smart Scheduler went from first commit to default-enabled in production in 19 hours. Here’s the architecture — manual agent loop, 13 scheduler tools mirroring 30 MCP tools, prompt caching on two breakpoints — and the meta-story about AI-assisted coding compressing what used to be a sprint into a day.
Voice + MCP: The Interface That Finally Kills the Dashboard
In my previous post, I argued that UIs are becoming optional: that MCP turns your AI assistant into an IDE where every product is just a plugin. But that post still assumed you’re sitting at a keyboard, typing prompts into a chat window. Take the keyboard away. Now what? Voice changes the equation entirely. MCP […]
UIs Are Becoming Optional — MCP and the End of the Dashboard Era
For decades, the way we interact with software has followed the same pattern: someone builds an interface, and we learn to use it. We click buttons, navigate menus, fill out forms. Every new tool means a new UI to master, a new set of conventions to internalize, a new cognitive load to carry. That era […]
The AI-Native Product: What Happens When You Design for AI Consumers First
There’s a category of product emerging that I think deserves its own label: the AI-native product. Not “AI-enhanced” — a product that bolts on a chatbot or sprinkles some ML recommendations on top. Not “AI-powered” — a product whose core engine is a model. I mean something different: a product that was designed from the […]
