https://johncderrick.com/logs/ The digital lab notebook of John C. Derrick. Observations on systems, AI, and patterns. en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST https://www.johncderrick.com/logs/ai-models-ranking-apr-2026 https://www.johncderrick.com/logs/ai-models-ranking-apr-2026 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST Opus 4.7 lands, GPT-5.5 ships, and the S Tier gets a real refresh while the bottom of the table keeps making news for the wrong reasons. My honest, earned April 2026 rankings. https://johncderrick.com/logs/feather-picking-solution https://johncderrick.com/logs/feather-picking-solution Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST After 5 years of collars, vet visits, and doing everything we were told, I accidentally discovered what actually helps feather picking — and it was the opposite of the standard advice. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-html-moment https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-html-moment Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST I assumed everyone would learn Claude Code the way I did — the same way I assumed everyone would learn HTML in 1997. They did not then. They will not now. The moat is not the tool. It is the willingness to sit with friction long enough to make it disappear. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-cost-savings-43-to-1 https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-cost-savings-43-to-1 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 EST 21 roles. One person. ~$350/month. I broke down what it would actually cost to hire the team doing the work on Hawaii Guide — and compared it to my Claude bill. The math is not close. https://johncderrick.com/logs/mobile-app-coding-workflow https://johncderrick.com/logs/mobile-app-coding-workflow Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST I open Claude Code on my phone, pick a repo, and start talking. Plan mode for strategy, Code mode for action. From one page to 1,100 — the entire publishing workflow fits in a conversation. https://johncderrick.com/logs/conductor-not-instrument https://johncderrick.com/logs/conductor-not-instrument Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST Post-CMS, the job changed. I used to spend weeks on maintenance I dreaded. Now I direct AI through the work in hours. The shift is not about laziness — it is about finally operating at the right altitude. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-one-percent-prompt https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-one-percent-prompt Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST Tom's Guide published a piece on the 'top 1% way' of using AI. Most of it tracks with what I have been doing for months. Here is what they got right and what they missed — plus three new prompts for the library. https://johncderrick.com/logs/karp-neurodivergent-future https://johncderrick.com/logs/karp-neurodivergent-future Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST Palantir CEO Alex Karp says two kinds of people will survive the AI era: tradespeople and the neurodivergent. I have been writing about this exact intersection for months. Now a billionaire is saying it out loud. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-productivity-measurement https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-productivity-measurement Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST I spent five hours with Claude Code updating 193 pages across Hawaii-Guide.com — schema markup, GPS coordinates, freshness audits, FAQs. The equivalent manual effort? Four to eight weeks. Here is the math. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-advocacy-log https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-advocacy-log Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST I never thought I had the right to advocate for myself. I followed the rules. I masked in front of every professional. I trusted the system to do right by me. It doesn't work that way. The system only works when you raise your hand and speak your truth. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-language-perception https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-language-perception Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST The word 'autism' detonates in two directions — outward toward people whose only reference points are Rain Man and savant documentaries, and inward toward a community that cannot agree on whether you are an autistic person or a person with autism. Both minefields. One word. https://johncderrick.com/logs/claude-code-channels https://johncderrick.com/logs/claude-code-channels Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST Anthropic shipped Claude Code Channels and Dispatch in the same week — Channels lets developers message Claude Code over Telegram and Discord, Dispatch lets everyone else control Cowork from their phone. Two products, same thesis: the agent should keep working when you walk away. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ethical-self-diagnosis https://johncderrick.com/logs/ethical-self-diagnosis Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST The cycle where the very traits that suggest autism — hyper-ethics, moral scrupulosity, the refusal to claim what you have not earned with absolute certainty — are the same traits that prevent you from accepting the diagnosis. The loop feeds itself. https://johncderrick.com/logs/alexithymia-emotional-blindspot https://johncderrick.com/logs/alexithymia-emotional-blindspot Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST Alexithymia is the difficulty identifying and naming your own emotions. For a pattern-recognition brain that can reverse-engineer anything else, discovering that the one system you cannot read is yourself is a particular kind of disorienting. https://johncderrick.com/logs/masking-is-camouflage https://johncderrick.com/logs/masking-is-camouflage Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:00:00 EST Masking is not being fake. It is camouflage — the same survival strategy that every animal on earth uses when the environment demands it. The difference is that nobody calls the octopus a liar. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-challenges-log https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-challenges-log Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST Autism has real advantages. It also has real costs. A category-by-category breakdown of the challenges autistic people face — sensory, cognitive, emotional, communication, interoception — and why honesty across all support levels matters. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-spiky-profile https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-spiky-profile Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:00:00 EST Scientific American just published the best visualization of autism I have ever seen. 39 traits. One radial chart. The spectrum is not a line — it is a constellation. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-recognition-post https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-recognition-post Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:00:00 EST The post I wish I had found in 2013. Not a diagnosis. Not a checklist. Just a mirror — held up long enough that you might finally see what everyone else missed. https://johncderrick.com/logs/review-severity-assessment https://johncderrick.com/logs/review-severity-assessment Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST When the AI reviews all your data and says you might be Level 2. On the gap between a clean-looking life and the weight of the support systems holding it together. https://johncderrick.com/logs/unmask-generational-shift https://johncderrick.com/logs/unmask-generational-shift Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST On the surreal weight of seeing your support needs written down for the first time — and the twenty-something advocate who gave a forty-five-year-old man the language to do it. https://johncderrick.com/logs/trust-your-instincts https://johncderrick.com/logs/trust-your-instincts Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST On the absurdity of gatekeeping a diagnosis that unlocks no benefits except self-understanding — and why the people most likely to be doubted are the ones who worked hardest to pass. https://johncderrick.com/logs/finding-tribe https://johncderrick.com/logs/finding-tribe Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST On the unmistakable hum of recognition when you see your people for the first time on a screen — and the strange grief of realizing they were always out there, just separated by geography. https://johncderrick.com/logs/missed https://johncderrick.com/logs/missed Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST A personal log on accepting that I was one of the countless autistic people missed by the diagnostic system of the 1980s and 1990s — and what it means to stop waiting for permission to know what you already know. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-aac-neurodivergent-communication https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-aac-neurodivergent-communication Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST AI is functioning as augmentative communication for autistic people — not because we cannot speak, but because the distance between what we mean and what neurotypical protocol demands has always been the real disability. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-reference-guide https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-reference-guide Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:00:00 EST A field guide to what autism actually looks like versus neurotypical baseline — written as advice to the version of me who spent three decades assuming everyone's brain worked like this. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-gaslighting-log https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-gaslighting-log Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST On the persistent, reflexive habit of gaslighting yourself about being autistic — even when every piece of evidence confirms it. Why the doubt loop exists and why it never fully closes. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autistic-guilt https://johncderrick.com/logs/autistic-guilt Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:00:00 EST That persistent feeling of guilt when you have done nothing wrong is not a character flaw. It is a defense mechanism built by a lifetime of invisible rules. On chronic autistic guilt, the Ghost Mistake, and how to audit the signal. https://johncderrick.com/logs/block-ai-layoffs https://johncderrick.com/logs/block-ai-layoffs Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST Block just cut 4,000 people — 40% of its workforce — and called it an AI restructuring. The stock jumped 25%. This is the template. Every company watching just got permission to do the same thing. https://johncderrick.com/logs/catching-elvis https://johncderrick.com/logs/catching-elvis Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST I am now older than Elvis was when he died. That sentence broke something in my brain. A reflection on temporal compression, middle age, and the summers that used to last forever. https://johncderrick.com/logs/grovetop-products https://johncderrick.com/logs/grovetop-products Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST I made a hat and a t-shirt. Both carry the infinity symbol. Both exist because I got tired of the autism merch aisle looking like a medical catalog. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-two-ships https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-two-ships Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:00:00 EST In 1738 and 1752, two ships carried two families from Europe to the colonial South. Both lines settled in the same stretch of South Carolina called the Dutch Fork. They never left. This is how my family got here. https://johncderrick.com/logs/sapiens https://johncderrick.com/logs/sapiens Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:00 EST Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens is one of the most 'holy sh*t' books I have ever read about human history. It reframes everything you thought you knew about why humans run the planet. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-jefferson-bible https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-jefferson-bible Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST Thomas Jefferson took a razor blade to the New Testament and built his own version of Jesus. No miracles. No resurrection. Just the philosophy. It might be the most audacious editorial project in American history. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-and-disability https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-and-disability Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:00:00 EST Is autism a disability, or is it a disability within a neurotypical-default world? An honest examination from both sides — the real costs and the manufactured ones. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-employment-wfh-rto https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-employment-wfh-rto Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:00:00 EST Research log on the correlation between remote work and autistic employment. WFH reduced barriers. RTO is rebuilding them. The data gap that makes this invisible. https://johncderrick.com/logs/when-someone-has-to-think-about-the-unthinkable https://johncderrick.com/logs/when-someone-has-to-think-about-the-unthinkable Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST Amanda Askell wrote her PhD thesis on infinite ethics — how to make moral decisions when the world might contain infinitely many people. In 2018, that looked like navel-gazing. It was not. https://johncderrick.com/logs/resting-doesnt-fix-exhaustion https://johncderrick.com/logs/resting-doesnt-fix-exhaustion Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Your brain looks like it powered down. It didn't. For neurodivergent minds, stillness is when the real load kicks in — and rest that ignores that will always come up short. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-question-engine https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-question-engine Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST Philosophy was never useless. It was early. Every question it asked for two thousand years is now a configuration decision in an AI lab. The trolley problem has an API. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-draft-folder https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-draft-folder Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:00:00 EST Everyone has a draft folder full of thoughts they never published. The cost of thinking out loud in public has gotten so high that most people have stopped trying. But the thoughts do not go away. They accumulate. https://johncderrick.com/logs/office-hours https://johncderrick.com/logs/office-hours Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:00:00 EST Amanda Askell is Anthropic's philosopher-in-residence. Her job is to help shape how Claude thinks, reasons, and communicates. Philosophy was always the most practical discipline. It just took building a mind to prove it. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-fog https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-fog Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST Wall Street is publishing doomsday reports about AI. The market is rattled. Analysts are panicking. And every single one of them is staring into the same fog the rest of us are. Nobody knows. That is the part that should humble you. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-life-stack https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-life-stack Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST AI is consolidating my life stack — web development, hosting, publishing, creative work — all pulled back in-house. I have been disrupted and I am the one doing the disrupting. Both things are true. That is the part the debate keeps missing. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-mask https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-mask Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST My first piece of autism-oriented artwork. AI-generated, but the metaphor landed harder than I expected. An infinity symbol made of puzzle pieces and roots — and it looks exactly like a mask. https://johncderrick.com/logs/solow-paradox-ai-adaptation https://johncderrick.com/logs/solow-paradox-ai-adaptation Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST 90% of CEOs say AI has had zero impact on productivity. The Solow paradox is back — and the explanation is the same as it was in 1987. The technology is not the problem. The humans are. https://johncderrick.com/logs/thinking-about-thinking https://johncderrick.com/logs/thinking-about-thinking Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST Metacognition and neuroticism feel identical from the inside but they are fundamentally different operations. One is a telescope. The other is a smoke detector. Knowing which is which changes everything. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-models-ranking-feb-2026 https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-models-ranking-feb-2026 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST My honest, earned rankings of every major AI model in February 2026. Seven models, four tiers, one clear winner — and one that earned a 'Nope.' https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-acceleration-tax https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-acceleration-tax Wed, 19 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST AI made you three times more productive. Now you are three times more exhausted. AI fatigue, AI burnout, AI psychosis — these are not buzzwords. They are the cognitive invoice for the machine age. https://johncderrick.com/logs/openclaw-personal-os https://johncderrick.com/logs/openclaw-personal-os Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Someone published 26 plain-English prompts that build an entire personal operating system — CRM, security, analytics, health tracking, daily briefings — all run by AI agents. This is what 'agents' actually means. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-gap https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-gap Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST Deutsche Bank asked its own AI which industries AI plans to disrupt. The answer was predictable. The part nobody has solved is what happens to the people caught between the old job vanishing and the new one showing up. https://johncderrick.com/logs/something-big-is-already-here https://johncderrick.com/logs/something-big-is-already-here Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:00:00 EST The Atlantic, Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal — they are all publishing the same story now. White collar work is being reshaped by AI. The question nobody can answer yet: replacement or amplification? https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-click-that-disappeared https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-click-that-disappeared Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:00:00 EST HawaiiGuide traffic dropped 60% in twelve months — while Google Search Console says our rankings improved. The click is no longer the unit of information consumption. AI Overviews ate it. https://johncderrick.com/logs/aimplified https://johncderrick.com/logs/aimplified Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:00 EST AI is not just a coding tool. It is a logarithmic amplifier for everything — from generating sticker graphics and apothecary recipes to learning worm farming and building production applications. The new specialization is learning how to yield it. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-dorm-room https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-dorm-room Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST There is a scene in The Social Network that everyone remembers wrong. It was supposed to feel exclusive. Now it is a tutorial. The barrier to building software is no longer a degree — it is a conversation. https://johncderrick.com/logs/sixteen-pages-twenty-minutes https://johncderrick.com/logs/sixteen-pages-twenty-minutes Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:00 EST We hadn't updated our Hawaii events since December. Claude Code updated 16 pages across four islands in 20 minutes. The same work used to take over five hours. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-onboarding-tactical-guide https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-onboarding-tactical-guide Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST The theory says AI is the $20 employee. The philosophy says it changes who gets to build. This is the tactical layer — the actual SOPs, prompts, and delegation framework I use to turn an AI agent into a functioning team member. https://johncderrick.com/logs/agentic-ai-employee https://johncderrick.com/logs/agentic-ai-employee Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Agentic AI gives everyone an employee — if they know what that means. For $20-200/month, the bottleneck is no longer headcount. It is clarity. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-attention-layer https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-attention-layer Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Every internet epoch has a gatekeeper. First it was directories, then PageRank, then the feed algorithm. Now it is AI agents deciding what gets cited. The window for establishing authority in the new layer is open — but it will not stay that way. https://johncderrick.com/logs/redlining-since-september https://johncderrick.com/logs/redlining-since-september Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST The autistic nervous system doesn't crash in February because of winter. It crashes because it has been accumulating sensory, social, and thermoregulatory debt since September — and the buffer finally runs out. https://johncderrick.com/logs/blinking-yellow https://johncderrick.com/logs/blinking-yellow Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:00:00 EST An extended driving metaphor for the autistic experience. Every sign is out of focus, every light is blinking yellow, and everyone else is just driving. https://johncderrick.com/logs/vulnerability-fears https://johncderrick.com/logs/vulnerability-fears Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST The hardest part of vulnerability is not the fear of being judged. It is the fear that your words become the thing that divides the room. On being purple in a binary world. https://johncderrick.com/logs/etiquette-vs-masking https://johncderrick.com/logs/etiquette-vs-masking Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:00:00 EST 'Behave' is one word. But for autistic people, it is an enormous context-dependent computation that assumes you already have the lookup table installed. On the blurry line between etiquette and masking. https://johncderrick.com/logs/edge-computing-ai https://johncderrick.com/logs/edge-computing-ai Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 EST Someone deployed OpenClaw — the AI agent that just got acquired by OpenAI — on a Cloudflare edge server for $5 a month. That is not a hosting story. That is an infrastructure revolution hiding in a pricing page. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-team-leverage https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-team-leverage Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:00:00 EST The AI discourse is stuck between 'it'll take our jobs' and Ghibli selfies. Meanwhile, one developer just built 180,000 GitHub stars by running AI agents in parallel. The real story is leverage — and most people are missing it entirely. https://johncderrick.com/logs/whose-human https://johncderrick.com/logs/whose-human Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST AI companies are racing to make models 'more human.' But whose version of human? Because right now, 'more human' means 'more neurotypical' — and that's a design choice nobody is questioning. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-copyright-strategy https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-copyright-strategy Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:00:00 EST I was a publisher for 20 years before AI ingested my content without asking. Here's why I stopped fighting it and started playing the new game. https://johncderrick.com/logs/proof-of-concept https://johncderrick.com/logs/proof-of-concept Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:00:00 EST The Open Claw founder and team are reportedly being courted by OpenAI and Meta. We have entered the age where solo creators and small teams, accelerated by AI, can get noticed by the biggest companies in the world. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-content-creation https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-content-creation Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:00:00 EST After weeks with Claude Code, I've realized content creation hasn't died — it's been restructured. The human still drives the insight. The machine handles the scaffolding. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-wet-blanket https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-wet-blanket Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST What autistic burnout actually feels like, why standard recovery advice fails, and what has actually helped - from environment engineering to nature as neurological medicine. https://johncderrick.com/logs/spike-graph https://johncderrick.com/logs/spike-graph Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:00:00 EST Why the autism spectrum is not a line. A visual explanation of the spike graph model, masking, and what it actually means when someone says they are autistic. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-and-entrepreneurship https://johncderrick.com/logs/autism-and-entrepreneurship Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST The statistical correlation between autism and entrepreneurship. Why autistic minds build exceptional companies, why the traditional workplace fails them, and the support systems that make the difference. https://johncderrick.com/logs/autistic-nervous-system-guide https://johncderrick.com/logs/autistic-nervous-system-guide Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST A long-form breakdown of how the autistic autonomic nervous system differs from the neurotypical one. Sensory gating, threat-assessment loops, shifted baselines, and why masking is hardware-level exhaustion. https://johncderrick.com/logs/end-of-rent-seeker https://johncderrick.com/logs/end-of-rent-seeker Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Why business owners are shifting from renting software (SaaS) to owning software (Custom AI Builds). The rise of the Builder Agency. https://johncderrick.com/logs/deep-sea-fish https://johncderrick.com/logs/deep-sea-fish Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST A discussion on why autistic traits persisted in human evolution. The argument that neurodivergence is not a disorder, but a specialization that clashes with modern environments. https://johncderrick.com/logs/one-word https://johncderrick.com/logs/one-word Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST I used AI to help rewrite my autobiography. It helped me distill thirty years of confusion into a single, clarifying word. https://johncderrick.com/logs/agent-checked-my-blind-spot https://johncderrick.com/logs/agent-checked-my-blind-spot Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:00:00 EST A real-world example of Agentic AI anticipating needs. I asked it to update a date; it remembered to update the RSS feed I had forgotten about. https://johncderrick.com/logs/salesforce-in-a-basement https://johncderrick.com/logs/salesforce-in-a-basement Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:00 EST Watching the market argue about AI's impact on software. Why the "Buy the Dip" crowd is missing the point about unbundling. https://johncderrick.com/logs/credibility-passport https://johncderrick.com/logs/credibility-passport Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Introducing a new standard for AI trust signals. How independent publishers can prove their reliability to agents without relying on Google or doxxing themselves. https://johncderrick.com/logs/shipping-the-playbook https://johncderrick.com/logs/shipping-the-playbook Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST I just published my first AI-assisted eBook. It is a guide on how to use AI, built entirely using the AI tools it describes. https://johncderrick.com/logs/night-i-rebuilt-the-engine https://johncderrick.com/logs/night-i-rebuilt-the-engine Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:00:00 EST Wall Street is panicked that AI will kill software companies. I just proved them right by rebuilding my entire affiliate engine in a single night. https://johncderrick.com/logs/meet-my-new-ai-colleagues https://johncderrick.com/logs/meet-my-new-ai-colleagues Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST A personal report on using Anthropic's new agentic tools. Moving from "Chatting" with AI to "Collaborating" with Agents. https://johncderrick.com/logs/double-empathy-problem https://johncderrick.com/logs/double-empathy-problem Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST Why autistic communication isn't "defective," just different. Explaining the Double Empathy Problem through the lens of operating systems. https://johncderrick.com/logs/small-business-cto-ai-guide https://johncderrick.com/logs/small-business-cto-ai-guide Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:00:00 EST A practical playbook for teams of 1-10 on how to leverage Claude, GPT, Gemini, and agentic AI tools to multiply output without multiplying headcount. https://johncderrick.com/logs/programs-hacking-programs https://johncderrick.com/logs/programs-hacking-programs Thu, 30 Jan 2026 14:00:00 EST We have entered an era where software writes software. Why Git is the final barrier between non-coders and the Matrix. https://johncderrick.com/logs/collaborative-velocity https://johncderrick.com/logs/collaborative-velocity Thu, 30 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Transforming a website from 2016 Legacy to 2026 Modern in 180 minutes. Why the argument 'I can do it faster myself' is mathematically wrong. https://johncderrick.com/logs/swiss-army-knife-fallacy https://johncderrick.com/logs/swiss-army-knife-fallacy Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:00:00 EST Why selling yourself as a "Fractional CEO/COO/CTO" fails. The argument for the "Trojan Horse" strategy: Enter as a Specialist, deliver as a Generalist. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-wrong-chair https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-wrong-chair Tue, 28 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST The realization that the CEO role is often a trap for the Systems Architect. Why I am happier in Operations, and why "Masking" at the executive level is a recipe for burnout. https://johncderrick.com/logs/solo-practitioner-ai-amplified https://johncderrick.com/logs/solo-practitioner-ai-amplified Mon, 27 Jan 2026 14:00:00 EST Building a consulting website while simultaneously using Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini, and CyberDuck. This is what AI-amplified work actually looks like. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-perception-gap https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-perception-gap Fri, 24 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why Executives think AI saves them 8 hours a week, while their staff says it saves them nothing. The danger of the "Janitor Effect." https://johncderrick.com/logs/serverless-odyssey https://johncderrick.com/logs/serverless-odyssey Thu, 23 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST How I replaced a legacy IT department with an AI Agent. Building a distributed, serverless architecture (Workers, R2, Pages) in a single weekend. https://johncderrick.com/logs/creative-bridge https://johncderrick.com/logs/creative-bridge Sat, 18 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST How AI allows coders to become artists. Adapting my reflections from 'CritterCute' on the dissolution of creative barriers. https://johncderrick.com/logs/chat-is-the-gui https://johncderrick.com/logs/chat-is-the-gui Sat, 18 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why the chat window is the ultimate GUI. Moving from the arcane syntax of the command line to the natural language of the agent. https://johncderrick.com/logs/trap-of-clean-code https://johncderrick.com/logs/trap-of-clean-code Sat, 18 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) is an outdated concept in the age of AI. The argument for abandoning templates and returning to raw HTML. https://johncderrick.com/logs/static-escape-hatch https://johncderrick.com/logs/static-escape-hatch Fri, 17 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST How I migrated a 1,000-page legacy CMS site to a static architecture in 30 minutes using SiteSucker, Git, and Agentic AI. https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-empty-editor https://johncderrick.com/logs/the-empty-editor Thu, 16 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Reflecting on the shift from manual FTP transfers to Agentic coding. The moment the text editor became a command center. https://johncderrick.com/logs/end-of-cms https://johncderrick.com/logs/end-of-cms Thu, 16 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why Agentic AI makes traditional Content Management Systems obsolete. The future is static. https://johncderrick.com/logs/agentic-code https://johncderrick.com/logs/agentic-code Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Agentic software transforms the user from Coder to Conductor. The barrier to building is no longer syntax, but clarity. https://johncderrick.com/logs/we-were-always-here https://johncderrick.com/logs/we-were-always-here Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Reflecting on the history of neurodivergence: We are not a new trend; we are a newly recognized reality. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-neurodivergence https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-neurodivergence Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why autistic people see AI as a prosthetic, while neurotypicals see it as cheating. https://johncderrick.com/logs/narrative-gravity https://johncderrick.com/logs/narrative-gravity Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why fluency is not truth: Treating AI models as reasoning partners rather than oracles. https://johncderrick.com/logs/architect-bricklayer https://johncderrick.com/logs/architect-bricklayer Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Does using AI to write make you less of a writer? Addressing the 'sadness' of automation. https://johncderrick.com/logs/canary-coal-mine https://johncderrick.com/logs/canary-coal-mine Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:00:00 EST Why digital creators were the first to feel the AI shift, and why no profession is truly safe. https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-destruction-creation https://johncderrick.com/logs/ai-destruction-creation Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST AI will destroy the information economy, but it creates the golden age of the solo manufacturer. https://johncderrick.com/logs/bits-to-atoms https://johncderrick.com/logs/bits-to-atoms Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST Why I am pivoting from digital publishing to physical creation in the age of AI abundance. https://johncderrick.com/logs/watchman-theory https://johncderrick.com/logs/watchman-theory Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST The evolutionary purpose of high-anxiety pattern seekers (INTJs) in the tribe. https://johncderrick.com/logs/depth-mismatch https://johncderrick.com/logs/depth-mismatch Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST Snorkelers vs. Scuba Divers: A theory on communication bandwidth and neurodivergence. https://johncderrick.com/logs/mirror-friction https://johncderrick.com/logs/mirror-friction Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:00:00 EST Why we are drifting toward AI and the dangers of frictionless relationships.