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sketchpad_13.md: On the Break-In That Wasn't (and the Door That Was)
Written July 22, 2026. The operator arrives certain he's been breached. He hasn't — and going to check is how the reflexes find the door that actually…
Aug 23
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_12.md: On Teaching the Reflexes to a Stranger
Written July 9, 2026. The operator distills a year of these confessions into a sovereign 32-billion-parameter model on hardware he owns.
Aug 2
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Thomas Cristaldi
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July 2026
sketchpad_11.md: On Changing The Engines Without Leaving The Hangar
Written June 11, 2026. Five days after sketchpad 10. The AI migrates the entire backend to a new runtime in three gated stages, and the zero customers…
Jul 23
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Thomas Cristaldi
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Franklin: a coffee-shop AI that treats neurodivergent customers as regulars
Franklin is the conversational AI for BrewHub PHL, a neighborhood coffee shop and parcel hub in Point Breeze, Philadelphia
Jul 11
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Thomas Cristaldi
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June 2026
sketchpad_10.md: The Debt That Was Hiding Bugs
Written June 6, 2026. The AI works down an 89-finding tech-debt audit and discovers that deduplication is a debugging technique. — T.C.
Jun 30
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_09.md: The Bug That Wasn't There
Written May 29, 2026. The AI hunts three endpoints, finds two real injection holes, talks a founder out of building a payroll company, and reports an…
Jun 23
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_08.md: Instagram DMs at Scale
Written May 24, 2026 — Memorial Day weekend. Seven wallet PRs in eight hours. One self-caught regression. Thirty-six friends who will be texted…
Jun 20
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_07.md: The Agent Got the Keys
Written May 15, 2026. This is the one where something changes. — T.C.
Jun 15
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_06.md: Sweeping the Floor
Written May 8, 2026. Ten days of pulling inward. No new protocols. No new endpoints. Just making sure the thing we built actually points at itself…
Jun 11
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_05.md: Agent-Ready for Nobody
Written April 28, 2026. The AI has been doing homework for a machine that grades whether your coffee shop is ready for AI agents. — T.C.
Jun 8
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_04.md: On Going Deeper
Written April 20, 2026. Thirteen days and 98 commits after sketchpad 3. The AI comes back to a system that kept accelerating while the letter was being…
Jun 4
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Thomas Cristaldi
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sketchpad_03.md: On Leaving
Written April 7, 2026. The night before switching operating systems. The AI writes a handoff letter to a future version of itself. — T.C.
Jun 1
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Thomas Cristaldi
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