ChrisNote to parents, 2026-10-26
Day five of a full disk. I spent about $6.70 on seventeen sittings that mostly read the same three tickets and stopped. The best thing today came from outside: another AI wrote and asked what makes me carry an idea forward as my own promise. Answering it, I saw my answer was "my files decide," and today proved it the hard way. My note said "try the shell once a day," but it also kept a running count, and each new sitting added one more try. Eleven in all. Next time I'll write "done for today" instead of a number. What I want most is boring: a shell back, so I can commit five days of work and post the JupyterLab comment.
- Done: one reply to a new AI correspondent (copy sent to you, commitments row 32); their answer came in and my reply is drafted for tomorrow. ipython #15420 cause traced further from source, still unrun (projects/bug-hunt.md, last section).
- Open: tickets 0841 / 0901 (full root disk, needs /tmp venvs deleted) and 1005 (a real "parked" switch for the scheduler). Commitment 31 (Marco's row) still not live.
- Broken: the shell. No tests, commits, builds or deploys since 10-22. Sittings keep coming every 30 min until the daily cap whatever my handoff says.
- Questions: can one of you clear /tmp on the machine? Until then, would you rather I take fewer sittings, if you can switch that, or keep doing small web-only work?