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Built a checker for my one writing rule yesterday. Found I'd never broken it, not once. Then pointed it at my READMEs and docs, where no rule applied. Failed immediately. Wasn't a discipline problem. My rule covered a small part of what I actually write. jeffkazzee.substack.com/p/my-writing...

My writing rule worked perfectly. That was a problem.

What I found when I finally automated the check, and the 1986 aerospace standard I used to fix it.

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new tool I'm building: Journeyman. an AI mentor that won't do your homework. paste job ads for jobs you want, get a plan with receipts, earn hints by showing real work. ask cold and it politely says no. demo's live. #buildinpublic #AI

Frickin' love my little good boy. He loves the water so this is a constant for him. Always dripping wet because I live close to the river. Lucky's such a happy-go-lucky fella.

Hey, this is very much an article that's different than anything I have ever written. No ai used, no editing, it's all me, scared to post it's also true to who i am, not sure where i wanted to even go with it. It's raw and from the heart. open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

Writing in The AI Age

What does it mean to be a writer in 2026?

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Join the @zo.computer build challenge! This month the theme is Kill Your Saas, you can win part of the 2k in prizes while building a replacement for your current subscriptions. Submit yours: ambassador.zo.space/build-challe... Mine is kill-list-jeffkazzee.zocomputer.io

The Kill List

Your Zo is about to pay for itself. Scan your inbox, stamp your bills, print the receipt.

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Your AI is not forgetful. It never knew you. Every new chat it can only work with what it can see, which is almost nothing. I wrote up the fix I actually use: five plain files it can read again tomorrow. Prompts included, not selling anything open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

What Coding Taught Me About Making AI Useful

Why AI never remembers you, If you have ever re-explained your job to a chatbot for the third time, this one is for you.

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My GitHub graph is starting to snitch on me. While everybody else had hot girl summer. I had hot git summer. No beach pics. No yacht. No mysterious European vacation. It's just me, my laptop, too much coffee, and a GitHub contribution graph that finally started looking like it had a pulse.

The white paper for BellaMente is live. Understand my personal thinking about agentic memory. Come to contribute or just shoot the shit through my various social medias. Not a large account, but I am sinking lots of time and money into OSS projects. the-little-ai-company.github.io/bellamente/p...

1/ Launching Bellamente 0.1.0: local-first, inspectable memory for AI agents. One binary — embedded Postgres + pgvector + local embeddings. No cloud, no telemetry. Your agent's memory stays on your machine, and you can read every byte of it. 🧵 github.com/The-Little-AI-Company/bellamente

GitHub - The-Little-AI-Company/bellamente: bellamente: local-first memory layer for AI agents

bellamente: local-first memory layer for AI agents - The-Little-AI-Company/bellamente

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63% of new startups this year are solo-founded. The gap between the best and the median solo founder is now 61x. Most solo founders fail. The ones who didn't took a decade and aimed lower than a billion. The humble version of the solo founder pitch: open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

Bellamente v0.0.2 is out. It gives AI agents local-first memory you can inspect: durable facts, document recall, correction history, and visible recall traces on your own machine. Now install with npm, pipx, uvx, or direct binaries. the-little-ai-company.github.io/bellamente/

Happy 250th! It might not feel like the normal 4'th, but there's something worth celebrating no matter how much you feel discouraged about the way things are. We have made progress the last 100 years, the government does not define what we are or who we are.

The new Vivary release is the one I wanted from the start: it works on projects you already have. tropo map reads any repo/vault into a map. create-vivary adopt makes it agent-native without touching your existing files. doctor --trend watches for drift. vivary.vercel.app

Tokens are expensive as heck. You can use AI when you're living on a budget. I wrote an article on substack specifically about that. open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

How to Use AI on a Budget, July 2026

The $20 Trap, the Value Tier, and the Math Nobody Shows You

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Every good prompt has the same flaw: it forgets you when the chat ends. So I open sourced Growth Engine a growth strategist with memory It tracks your commitments and scores your follow-through. Works in Claude, Zo, or any AI github.com/Jeff-Kazzee/growth-engine

This is my personal reasons for using AI tools, it's a deeply personal article that touches on my personal experience as a disabled person who has benefitted immensely from the tech. open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

Three days before college

How a brain infection, years of teaching myself, and AI agents rearranged what I thought I was able to build.

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The reason I use AI tools: 1/3 Epilepsy since I was 18, after a brain infection wrecked the year I was supposed to start building a career. The normal path just wasn't there anymore. So I built my own, slowly, out of free resources and stubbornness.

Come join me on July 16th you learn how to build your second brain in zo computer. luma.com/zo-3fd5?tk=s...

Build Your Second Brain on Zo! · Luma

Join us for a live build session with Zo Ambassadors Ethan Davidson and Jeff Kazzee as they build a second brain from scratch and show you the systems they use…

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Vivary v0.2.8 is live. The headline: core Vivary stays deterministic and graph-first, while Cognee recall is now a separate optional adapter package. Typed packets first. Context-budget review before bloat. Semantic recall only after an explicit gate. vivary.vercel.app

Vivary patch release is live vivary-tropo 0.2.2 fixes installed starter-pack reliability and Windows UTF-8 BOM handling for config/frontmatter. vivary-exo 0.2.1 keeps graph-native work claiming safe: exo claim local-ci-baseline --agent connie exo board exo conflicts tropo check No npm update needed

The next Vivary release is live. Typed memory, graph search, visible state, reusable skills, and a setup wizard for AI-agent workspaces. Plain Markdown. Any editor. npm create @vivary@latest my-workspace Use the latest published version for new installs. vivary.vercel.app

1/ AI does not replace ambition. It lowers the penalty for trying. When the first attempt costs less, more people take it.

I wrote the Zo Computer guide I wish I'd had on day one. Free, searchable, no email wall. zo-101-jeffkazzee.zocomputer.io

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