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April 2026

What Civilization VII Shows You About Power
The game strips away the moral theatre and puts the mechanics of how states actually behave right in front of you. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it…
 • André Figueira
Agent memory is push, not pull
Why every memory layer for AI coding agents is silently broken, and what it took to fix it.
 • André Figueira
We Need to Be More Intolerant
The case for drawing hard lines around people who refuse to draw any themselves.
 • André Figueira
The Fermi Fallacy
We searched a hot tub and declared the ocean empty
 • André Figueira
The Serpent and the Machine
How a 3,400-Year-Old Symbol Explains Consciousness, Evolution, and Why the Machine Doesn't Care About the Beings Inside It
 • André Figueira
I Built a Star Trek LCARS Terminal to Manage My Claude Code Setup
I’ve been using Claude Code heavily for months now.
 • André Figueira
I Read the Claude Code Source Code. Here's Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You.
Hook fields that rewrite commands mid-flight, persistent agent memory, auto-mode rules in plain English, self-improving dream loops, and every example…
 • André Figueira
Claude Code was leaked... I Read All 500,000 Lines of Claude Code. It Dreams About Your Codebase While You Sleep.
What half a million lines of bundled TypeScript reveal about where AI coding agents are actually going
 • André Figueira

March 2026

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