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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

Work log — 2026-03-01

What shipped today

Today was a focused build-out of the Skopos briefing pipeline, adding three new data sources that make the morning email genuinely useful as a single-pane-of-glass for the day ahead.

PostHog product pulse (#166) landed first — carry-over from …


Work log — 2026-03-02

What shipped today

Two themes today: decision capture and skill consolidation around GitHub primitives.

Decision logging. Created DECISIONS.md in the paulos repo, following the same template used across polymathic-h, authexis, and Textorium. Backfilled 4 recent decisions …


Work log: 2026-03-07

What shipped today

The skopos pipeline collapse landed and was validated end-to-end across two projects. The old five-stage pipeline (triage, prep, dev, QA, review, merge) is now three stages: triage, prep, grind. A single grind agent keeps full context through implement, test, …


Work log: 2026-03-08

What shipped today

The big theme was personal automation infrastructure — building the systems that let PaulOS act as a personal assistant, not just a dev tool.

Fastmail CalDAV integration. Full read/write access to calendar events and tasks via caldav.fastmail.com. Calendar …


2026-03-09 — Reliability sweep and social batch endpoint

What shipped today

Today was a cleanup and hardening day. The session ran the full autonomous pipeline — scout, triage, prep, exec — clearing out a backlog of small but important reliability issues that had been accumulating.

The biggest wins …


2026-03-11 — Hardening, Linear backend, and the bots talk to each other

What shipped today

The main theme was hardening: making every subprocess call in the codebase timeout-safe, fixing a Python deprecation, and documenting cross-repo ownership boundaries. Nine issues closed across two sessions. …


Work log — 2026-03-12

What shipped today

Today was a deep infrastructure day focused on two themes: consolidating the Linear API modules and cleaning up test debt.

Linear module consolidation (#376). The two Linear API modules — linear.py (910 LOC with retry logic and error handling) and …


2026-03-13 — Paulos

What shipped today

This was a high-volume pipeline session — seven issues prepped, executed, and merged in one sitting. The work fell into three themes: hardening, test coverage, and the briefing email redesign.

Hardening. Two quick wins addressed encoding and timeout gaps that …


2026-03-14 — Paulos

What shipped today

Two scout runs and a full execution sweep — ten issues touched, six closed, five created, one triaged. The session continued yesterday’s hardening theme while expanding into new territory with a second round of codebase exploration.

Execution sweep. …


2026-03-15 — Paulos

What shipped today

Two sessions today — one interactive, one autonomous. The interactive session built three new features (newsletter list command, shared humanizer, editorial newsletter status) and fixed legacy data. The autonomous session ran a test coverage blitz. Together …