Robert Taylor
Engineer posting about robotics/software engineering; engages on applied robotics and tooling topics relevant to industrial automation.
Automating Ops with Agent Bots: Non‑lethal Efficiency
I’m running a new project to automate operational things with agents and tools for agents. It’s basically building murder bots, but for ops. Same thing just less lethal
Enterprise Claude Code Token Usage Cools Down From April
Something I noticed this month on Enterprise Claude Code … token brrr is chill compared to April.
Social Engineering Breach Forced Me to Quit Wells Fargo
Last month my WellsFargo online banking account was taken over theu a social engineering attack on the WellsFargo call center. (I know this because a fraud investigator walked thru their logs with me; account phone number changed via call in...
Under‑estimating Mileage Made My CLA Lease Painful
Lease the CLA with 15k miles a year was a bad idea. Should have upped to 20-25k. So fun
Calling 2026 Mercedes CLA
Dear algo show me 2026 Mercedes CLA 250+E owners/drivers, and 2026 Mercedes EQE SUV owners/drivers. Also, more Codex users.
Good To Go’s Flawless Design Falters in Execution
WA Good To Go had all the bones in place to make a good experience for people signing up to pay tolls but just failed execution. Not sure what happened on their end, but once again, after having been a customer...
Enterprise Developers Spend Thousands Annually on Tool Subscriptions
Enterprise devs: How much do you or your company pay for the tools you use to produce your work product? I’m still gathering the info needed to calculate the costs of my portion of tools we use collectively, but we’re up...
Seeking AI Agents for Deterministic DevOps Collaboration
Dear algo: please connect me with people interested in AI agent harnesses for deterministic software engineering, CI/CD, operations, observability, and reliability. No Grok
Kimberly‑Clark Faces Blame over Failed Fire Suppression, Cleanup
Big questions after the Kimberly-Clark TP warehouse burned, including what culpability the company has for not allowing water fire-suppression systems to work, and after the loss of so much product, who’s going to clean up the shit-show and with what?
Emergent Builds MLS Replacement From a Single Prompt
A realtor just showed me an MLS replacement built with Emergent from a single prompt. F—k
Local 4‑bit Qwen Models Now Code‑ready on Apple Silicon
On homelab, I'm running some tests with: - Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Distilled-MLX-4bit - qwen3.5-27b-opus-distilled-8bit (Apple Silicon, MLX) The 4bit is a bit less comprehensive than the 8bit, but both are amazing. The quality of work (coding, specific) would have blown me away just 6 months ago --...
Rtk Doubles Token Throughput, Making Work Feel Weekend
rtk makes day-time agentic work with Claude Code feel like the weekends (2x the tokens in high-demand hours through rtk) https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
Safari Beats Mail.app: Faster, Lighter iCloud Experience
Using Safari on a MacBook Air to access iCloud mail is a far superior experience than struggling with Mail.app. Imagine a product that sucks as a native app, from the maker of the OS and hardware, compare to a web...