Back matter
Things I've decomposed
Each of these exists because I couldn't explain something in one sentence, and that bothered me enough to work it out.
01
RAG is just good search plus a note to the AI
The most over-explained idea in AI, in one sentence.
02Local-first changes who you have to trust
Move the data and the promise becomes a fact.
03Building in public compounds
Strangers correct a public mistake. A private one repeats.
04Agents are just a loop
Pick a tool, read the result, decide again.