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<\/p>\nThere’s too much to read and not enough time to read it. Traditional news feeds reward volume over value. Every source competes for attention with the same urgency, whether the story matters or not.<\/p>\n
Paper Clips takes a different approach. It curates intelligence briefings from sources you trust, strips the noise, and delivers what’s worth knowing in a format that respects your time.<\/p>\n
Sources are configured once. The system monitors them, extracts what’s relevant, and assembles briefings that surface signal over noise. No algorithmic feed. No engagement tricks. Just the information, organized and ready.<\/p>"},{"title":"Tidal Orchestration","link":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/projects\/tidal-orchestration\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/projects\/tidal-orchestration\/","description":"
One tmux session, split into panes. One orchestrator running a capable model. Workers running something faster and cheaper. Each worker gets a clear, scoped task. The orchestrator watches, corrects, and redirects.<\/p>\n
Sub-agents inherit the parent’s context, assumptions, and drift. Tmux sessions start clean. Each one reads the project instructions from scratch with no residue from previous tasks. The isolation is the feature.<\/p>\n
Every worker loads CLAUDE.md on startup. If a fresh session can’t build the right thing from your instructions alone, the instructions are wrong. The pattern is a quality gate for your documentation.<\/p>"},{"title":"AI Agents Need More Than a Chat Box","link":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/posts\/ai-agents-need-more-than-a-chat-box\/","pubDate":"Wed, 27 May 2026 16:55:00 -0400","guid":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/posts\/ai-agents-need-more-than-a-chat-box\/","description":"
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Chat made AI accessible because it borrowed the most familiar interface we had. But familiarity is not the same as fit. We used chat because it was the fastest way to bring people into the loop. Now that agents are starting to do more than answer questions, the loop itself has to change.<\/p>\n
AI agents need more than a chat box.<\/p>"},{"title":"Tidal Code","link":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/posts\/tidal-orchestration\/","pubDate":"Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700","guid":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/posts\/tidal-orchestration\/","description":"
The moon orchestrates the ocean without touching it. Every wave breaks on its own shore, shaped by its own coastline, unaware of the others. But the rhythm, the pull, the timing of the whole system comes from something far above that sees none of the details and governs all of them. The best way to coordinate machines building software works the same way.<\/p>\n
Most tools for coordinating machine work treat it like a single ocean. One context window. One long conversation. Engineers will recognize this as the Singleton pattern. Easy to build. Works great at first. Then the cracks show.<\/p>"},{"title":"\"Almost UNIMAGINABLE Power\" - Anthropic Founder","link":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/briefing\/2026-01\/2026-01-28-almost-unimaginable-power-anthropic-founder\/","pubDate":"Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:35:33 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/bretthamlin.com\/briefing\/2026-01\/2026-01-28-almost-unimaginable-power-anthropic-founder\/","description":"
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei warns that humanity is entering a “technological adolescence” where we’ll soon possess almost unimaginable power through super-intelligent AI. His essay examines the dark side of AI progress, arguing that powerful AI systems capable of outperforming Nobel Prize winners could arrive within 1-2 years<\/strong> and pose existential risks through autonomy, misuse, and economic disruption.<\/p>\n