38 sessions · peak 10/day
What I worked on this week.
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Project: Command
16 sessions this week · active 5/7 days
Watches all ~65 of my projects and keeps their Claude Code setups optimized and running cleanly: surfacing CI failures, stale or unpushed work, and config drift, and proposing the fix from one seat. proof caseBefore a fix runs, Command commits its exact success metric and target to git, so the bar cannot move afterward to fit the result. false-provingA measure reporting success from random noise alone. Caught and bounded before the measure is trusted on a real case.
this weekSealed the first real proof case, so a proposed fix has to clear a metric committed before it runs, and hardened the measurer against false-proving.
archiveInventoried my global Claude skills and promoted project ones to the global set
Took inventory of my machine-wide Claude skills, promoted strong project-specific ones to the global set, and put them under a review loop so the tooling that touches every project stays clean.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesBrief planning session before the work-log build
A short planning session that set direction before the work-log build began.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workCompared two models across my chat history and fed the gaps into my tooling
After a change in model access, I mined my own chat history to find where one model had actually outperformed the other and how, then turned the concrete gaps into improvements to my global skills and config.
goal Mine my own chat history for the methods that actually improve resultsPre-registered an abort to keep the proof case uncontaminated
Of 10 open threads, 4 were Command's own probes the anchor failed to catch. Rather than patch mid-run and contaminate the result, I pre-registered an abort: if the phantom count shifts at all, the whole attempt is void. The same session also added a variance driver, a cheaper summary tier, and a command-status skill.
goal Build a signal engine that turns my own chat history into targeted improvementsdetail
Audited my projects and assets for the highest-leverage place to focus
Stepped back to audit all my projects and assets for the highest-leverage place to focus, weighing where a small amount of my own hands-on time could move the needle most.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingScoped a cross-project leverage audit
A short scoping pass that kicked off the cross-project leverage audit before it continued in a later session.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingPre-registered the first proof case, and caught the measurer false-proving while validating it
I committed the success metric to git before any fix, as an anti-fishing seal so the bar cannot move to fit the result. While validating the measure, I caught it false-proving 5 to 10 percent of the time on pure noise, past its certified envelope, found by attacking the instrument with injected nulls before trusting it on a real case. The apply-and-measure step still has not run.
goal Build a signal engine that turns my own chat history into targeted improvementsdetail
Inventoried a sibling project's repo and documentation state
Inventoried a sibling project's branch, pull-request, and documentation state to see what had drifted since its last landing, leaving the rest as tracked todos.
goal Keep a live status picture across all my projectsFixed stale status docs a repo inventory had flagged
A repo inventory had flagged stale status docs after a rebuild; this session fixed the README status and a frozen build-state header so they matched reality.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingBuilt the directive surface and the unattended watcher's verdict write
Built the directive read surface and the unattended watcher's verdict write, the parts that let the operator act on its own findings between sessions, then ran an alignment session to lock the direction.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesFused raw signals and made the operator's directives machine-checkable
Fused raw sensors into signals and made the operator's directives machine-checkable, so its proposals carry conditions a machine can verify rather than prose.
goal Build a signal engine that turns my own chat history into targeted improvementsWorked out the cleanest way to keep Claude Code up to date
A short session working out the cleanest, least-disruptive way to keep Claude Code updated across my setup.
goal Build an always-aware autonomous operator that runs my standing goals with minimal hand-holdingWired the signal engine into the live project registry
Wired the signal engine into the live project registry, so it resolves real projects from the registry and folds their activity in safely.
goal Build a signal engine that turns my own chat history into targeted improvementsBuilt the proof loop: apply a fix, measure it, then prove it or roll back
Built Phase 2 of the signal engine: the proof loop that applies a fix, measures the effect, iterates up to a cap, then proves it or rolls back, all gated behind confirmation.
goal Operate that signal engine and measurably cut my own recurring frictionMade directives first-class so a proven fix can roll out across the fleet
Built Phase 3: directives became first-class, with a candidate-to-proven-to-fleet-wide rollout lifecycle and anti-blast-radius guards, coupled to the signals that justify them.
goal Make my operator's behavior reliably evolvable through skills and durable rulesAdded the continuous metric feed the proof loop measures against
Built the start of Phase 4: the continuous metric-series feed and the derived-measure gate the proof loop reads from, so a remediation can be measured against a real series instead of a single reading.
goal Build a signal engine that turns my own chat history into targeted improvements Project: brycewatson.com
3 sessions this week · active 2/7 days
This site: the writing, the build, and this log itself. The goal here is to show the work honestly, receipts and retractions included.
this weekRewrote the Command write-up around its design decisions, shipped the Command project page, and started this work-log.
archiveDesigned and built this weekly work-log page
I wanted a page that shows the actual work behind my projects instead of pitching them. This is it: every interactive Claude Code session from the week, each one curated, with the private and personal ones redacted by rule rather than dropped. The counts are re-derived from git locally, and the page regenerates from the same source.
goal Ship an auto-updating weekly work log as honest proof of recent workShipped the Command project page and a site-wide dark-mode pass
Built a dedicated project page for Command, retired an outdated post, and fixed dark-mode and consistency issues across the site, then pushed it all to production.
goal Keep this site clean, accurate, and currentRewrote the Command write-up around its design decisions
The old Command post was outdated, so I rewrote it from the ground up. After a few drafts it settled on the design decisions and goals rather than premature outcomes, since the project is still early, and on language that actually sounds like me.
goal Ship the next most valuable blog post each week, fact-checked Project: DemandForge
11 sessions this week · active 6/7 days
A category-authority research engine: it earns trust by producing original, sourced research for a product category, then points that trust at products. The machine does the labor; I approve in about fifteen minutes a day.
this weekBuilt the silent-source alert pipeline and re-verified the full pricing set before launch, where 8 of 13 claims had drifted.
archiveReviewed the metrics, confirmed the crons fire, and checked usage costs
Reviewed what the metrics were saying, confirmed the scheduled jobs were firing and would keep firing, and checked actual usage costs before relying on them.
goal Measure organic demand on demandReplaced an AI-looking hero with a real licensed photo and added a privacy policy
Replaced an AI-looking hero image with a real, properly licensed photo, and added a review-looped privacy policy so the site was ready for affiliate applications.
goal Build category-authority content that ranksChecked early traffic and set up access for the agent
Checked whether any traffic had reached the site yet and set up the access the agent needed to keep the work moving on its own.
goal Measure organic demand on demandMade the research page more authoritative with source links and transparency
Deep-linked the research page's sections, added external source links, and wrote a how-it-is-made transparency section, then reviewed the outreach drafts. Kept it standing on the research itself rather than a personal byline.
goal Build category-authority content that ranksBrief session, redirected
A brief session that was redirected almost immediately.
goal Detect rising category demand before it peaksBuilt the alert pipeline with streak-based escalation for silently failing sources
I built the alert pipeline: durable price history, a broadcast digest, and streak-based escalation. The real failure isn't a visible price change, it's a source quietly dying so the alerts stop, so it escalates only after a load-bearing source has been blocked for several runs, and won't cry wolf on transient noise. The weekly schedule is configured but has not yet run on its own.
goal Measure organic demand on demanddetail
Fixed an internal inconsistency in a product data record
Caught and fixed an internal inconsistency in a product data record, where two fields disagreed about the same fact.
goal Build category-authority content that ranksRe-verified every pricing claim before launch; 8 of 13 claims had drifted
Two agents re-checked every price and subscription claim against official sources right before publishing: a dropped free tier, a doubled price, a "no subscription" model that now charges. Caught before it shipped, by hand.
goal Build category-authority content that ranksdetail
Shipped the research engine's first production change-detection automation
Shipped the research engine's first production automation: a change-detection script that watches sources for drift, plus search-console verification and the deploy plumbing around it.
goal Measure organic demand on demandExpanded the dataset, built supporting articles, and wired email capture
Expanded the dataset with more models, built supporting articles from verified hooks, ran an adversarial QA pass, and wired up email capture for an owned audience.
goal Build category-authority content that ranksReversed a kill decision built on a mislabeled metric
An internal audit had marked a whole research direction dead. Before pivoting, I ran three agents with the opposite bias to attack that call. They found the kill was partly an artifact: a key click-through figure was a real number from one source, relabeled as if it measured a different thing. I reversed the over-call and kept the narrower read that actually survived.
goal Detect rising category demand before it peaksdetail
Project: Personal
1 session this week
The life and money admin that keeps the runway clear while I build.
Worked through a personal financial runway plan
Worked through a personal financial runway plan and the lower-risk ways to extend it. Not public-facing work, but part of an honest week.
Project: chat-arch
1 session this week
Tooling that mines my Claude chat history for patterns, now winding down into an archive.
Reviewed a branch's open work before archiving the project
Took a quick look at what work was still sitting in a branch before winding the project down into an archive.
Project: Akaya
5 sessions this week
An AI platform. My work here makes its question-answering measurable and trustworthy: golden datasets and a real evaluation harness instead of guesswork.
this weekBuilt the eval baseline and golden sets, closed a retrieval gap, and packaged the phase to share.
Closed out the eval phase and packaged the work to share
Closed out the evaluation phase: cleaned the pull request and its companion issue so they were accurate and free of internal planning, and packaged the work to share.
Acted on review feedback to simplify the model choice and re-checked the answers
Acted on review feedback to move to a cheaper, sufficient model, then re-checked the questions and answers to confirm quality held.
Diagnosed why the Q&A pipeline refused answerable questions, and closed the gap
Diagnosed why the cloud question-answering pipeline kept refusing questions it actually had the answer to, and closed the retrieval gap behind it.
Ran the eval baseline and dual-judge reports, recording every judgment call
Ran the evaluation baseline pipeline and the dual-judge reports, then went back through the work to capture every key piece of context and judgment call that had shaped it.
Built a trustworthy evaluation harness and golden datasets for the Q&A system
Worked toward a trustworthy evaluation harness and golden datasets for the question-answering system, so its answer quality can be measured rather than guessed at, and made the setup work for any account instead of a hardcoded one.
Project: ShopForge
1 session this week
An operator that builds and runs an online store end to end.
this weekCleaned up the repo and docs after a rebuild landed.
Cleaned up the store builder's repo and docs after a rebuild landed
Cleaned up the store builder's repository after a rebuild landed: committed outstanding doc fixes and reconciled the status and build-state docs with reality.
goal Build a near-autonomous shop that sells print-on-demand art with minimal hands-on time