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Notes from JJ
A weekly dispatch on pharma data strategy, AI tooling, and the projects I'm shipping — the same notes that land in the inbox, laid out to read.
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The Agent Applies. The Model Decides. I Get Time Back.
Muse applying to jobs, JEV making fast structured decisions, and the time recovered for building with my kids.
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The Agent Has Its Own Laptop Now
Persistent personal agents, onboarding a small fleet of AI workers, and the workflow that turns an idea into finished work.
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Two Cities, One Desk, and a Small Swarm
A two-city coworking office, a mini-PC agent lab, and GPT-6 Astra as a serious web design tool.
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Three Models, Three Terminals, and More Margin
A $45/month frontier stack, a practical multi-agent layout, and why making room may be the best use of AI leverage.
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Pets, Less Slop, and Real Moats
Notes moves to Mondays — plus why AI pets beat Clippy, no-slop drafting, and speed is not a moat.
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The AI "Holy Trinity," Autonomous Nomadism & AI Reasoning on a Nintendo DS
Base tools get 100x more lethal with MCP connectors — and why reasoning is decoupling from hardware.
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The $20 Frontier Strategy, Gemini 3.7 Flash & Grokbot
Stop pinching pennies on nerfed models before you have felt what frontier intelligence can actually do.
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Multi-Harness Architecture & Strategic Model Economics
A look inside the operational stack — and why the endgame of AI adoption is ruthless optimization.
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Sprout CLI 1.0, Opus 5 Economics, and Building Modular AI
Sprout hits 1.0, Opus 5 lands near Fable quality at half the cost, and AI stops being a search bar.
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Remote Agents, Codex Consumes, and New Model Economics
The shift from batched prompts to persistent remote agents — and cheaper models that can actually run them.
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HCP Targeting, WebGL Shaders, and Project Launches
Weekly claims data feeding live HCP targets — and slider-driven WebGL uniforms in Motion.
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Omnichannel Aggregation, OpenTutor, and Discord Classrooms
Connecting prescribing, CRM, and digital in 48 hours — then putting tutors in Discord.
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Snowflake Modernization, OpenCrush UI, and Summer Workflows
A warehouse that actually uses columnar storage — and an onboarding wizard that stops losing people.
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Pharma Launch Analytics, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and AURABLOX
Launch dashboards that do not fly blind — plus Claude writing dbt from unstructured labels.
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Hermes Dashboard, Motion Release, and AI Landscape
Watching a local agent work in real time — and shipping Motion as an open visual toolkit.
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Shaders, Coding Agents, and Remote Control Terminals
A free planner that actually finishes the job, plus remote control of the homelab from Discord.
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