Miguel Garcia • Posts

Notes and essays from the directory.

Short pieces about projects, learning, readings, and the process of shaping this personal site over time.

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    What broke, and what each break taught

    Eleven days of unattended agents, told through their failures: false premises, quiet overspends, a leaked credential, a Mac that only seemed awake, and the structural fix each one forced.

    • ai
    • agents
    • automation
    • debugging
    • process
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    Taste is not a score

    Ten products passed a ten-axis design gate. I kept five. What a scored review can and can't tell you about whether something is good.

    • ai
    • agents
    • design
    • process
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    Running an agent product studio on one Mac

    How launchd, a skill file, and a folder of TSVs ran Devin, Codex, and Cursor unattended to build and ship open-source products.

    • ai
    • agents
    • automation
    • macos
    • process
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    Two days fixing a bank that moved money twice

    The t·Dots Banana Bank challenge: an AI banking assistant that duplicated transfers and moved money without asking. What I found, what I built on top, and how I worked with three coding agents reviewing each other.

    • hackathon
    • agents
    • llm
    • banking
    • process
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    Folding shirts at HackSpain

    36 hours, one robotics brief from THEKER, and a simulated line that presses, folds and bags shirts. What we built and how the weekend went.

    • hackathon
    • robotics
    • simulation
    • dashboard
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    Keeping my context outside the agent

    How I am using a personal knowledge base to carry context, interests, and long-term goals across different AI agents.

    • ai
    • agents
    • knowledge-base
    • local-first
    • process
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    I accidentally turned a YouTube transcript script into a tiny product

    A small product launch note for Video Digest, a local CLI and TUI for turning YouTube videos into transcripts and structured digests.

    • ai
    • cli
    • product
    • youtube
    • agents
    • automation
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    Turning my YouTube backlog into email digests

    A short build note about a small Codex-assisted workflow that turns videos I save on YouTube into useful personal digests.

    • ai
    • automation
    • knowledge-base
    • youtube
    • process
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    Why this site is a directory

    A short note about why I want this personal site to work as a changing directory of projects, readings, people, and ideas.

    • personal-site
    • writing
    • process