James MenschI build for the human side of tech. Cofounder/CTO at OneOnMe, a kinder way to send gifts. Magnifai, New Knowledge, and Google before. Austin.https://jamesmensch.com/Hand every AI you use the same name taghttps://jamesmensch.com/writing/name-tag-for-every-ai/https://jamesmensch.com/writing/name-tag-for-every-ai/Every new chat, you re-introduce yourself to your AI. Four plain files in ~/.me/ that any tool reads. One write, many readers, no vendor lock-in.Sun, 24 May 2026 16:00:00 GMTStop parsing TUI screenshots. claude agents --json is the HUD primitive.https://jamesmensch.com/writing/claude-agents-json-hud/https://jamesmensch.com/writing/claude-agents-json-hud/We hand-rolled a tmux status bar that watches Claude Code sessions by scraping terminal text. The 2.1.145 release shipped the JSON output we'd been faking.Sun, 17 May 2026 22:30:00 GMTCap your AI assistant's retry storms before the gate becomes the problemhttps://jamesmensch.com/writing/claude-code-stop-hook-cap/https://jamesmensch.com/writing/claude-code-stop-hook-cap/We wrote shell-script gates to enforce AI workflow discipline. Then the gates themselves started looping. CC 2.1.147 finally added the kill switch.Sun, 10 May 2026 22:00:00 GMTDon't let your AI decide which rules to followhttps://jamesmensch.com/writing/dont-let-ai-decide/https://jamesmensch.com/writing/dont-let-ai-decide/Claude has 80+ rules to follow. Three tool calls in, it decides to ignore half. Here's how to stop that.Sun, 03 May 2026 18:30:00 GMT