Lessons from the Terminal

Twice-weekly field notes on infrastructure, AI, and systems.

What I built, what broke, and the evidence that changed the next decision.

May 2026 Operations

What Chores Teach Me About Queues

Household chores are a brutally honest queueing system. Work arrives from ordinary life, the machines have fixed capacity, and completed-looking steps have a habit of producing another pile somewhere else.

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