Privacy is about confidentiality. Independence is about whether I can still operate when the platform I've been renting from decides I can't. Different question. Once asked, it reframes nearly every technology decision a founder or owner-operator makes.
https://gabrielmarkley.com/writing/2026/what-survives-if-the-platform-decides-you-dont/
#digitalindependence #digitalsovereignty #owneroperator #aiaugmented #POSSE
Could your next Claude Code skill be a diagram? Not a diagram just describing the skill — a diagram that is the skill, executed like code. The answer is YES.
Once you've tried it, you may not want to go back.
https://antonymarcano.substack.com/p/claude-code-skills-as-executable
AI agents let me start more — and starting more is not delivering more. I sat down to improve one occupancy algorithm last week and ended up with seven microservices, 1.5M tokens spent, and a research trail I never used. All I needed was an improvement to the original.
https://gabrielmarkley.com/writing/2026/starting-more-is-not-delivering-more/
#aiaugmented #focus #engineeringleadership #productmanagement
Your Coding Agents Just Broke – Yet Nothing in Your Repo Changed?!
This has just made another compelling case for a test-driven approach to your CLAUDE/SKILL.md changes when using coding agents at scale...
Read on → https://open.substack.com/pub/antonymarcano/p/your-coding-agents-just-broke-yet
Gabriel Markley
Antony Marcano
HPC Guru