The Mixed Fleet
Can a frontier orchestrator on a subscription delegate to local open-weight models?
Everything I have published: essays and manuals from From Lab to Life, research papers, and the archive. Each work tells you where you can read it.

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Can a frontier orchestrator on a subscription delegate to local open-weight models?
We are learning to build and ship real digital products using AI coding agents. The gap between idea and shipped product is no longer technical, it is contextual.
A practitioner's comparison of three coding-agent philosophies.
The canonical home of the Solo era / Symphony era framing.
Two years ago, I started an experiment. I wanted to know whether I could build production-grade software products without writing most of the code myself. Not because I was lazy. Because I had thirty years of product ideas and not nearly enough development hours to explore them.
Five days testing Augment Code's Intent orchestration tool on the production Lumina platform (building Lumina Pro).
New essays from From Lab to Life arrive on Substack before they reach this library.
How Augment Code’s Intent Just Changed Everything — Again
A personal narrative of the shift from "learning to code" to "directing intelligence", tracing the tools from early agents to orchestration.