https://loserlabs.dev Marshall Jarvis on infrastructure, tooling, and building things alone. en-us Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/reach-stopped-being-a-window https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/reach-stopped-being-a-window Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT Reach v1 was a launcher you opened. v2 is a handle on the edge of your screen. Getting there meant freezing a working app and starting over. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/seven-of-my-ten-skills-cant-change-a-single-file https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/seven-of-my-ten-skills-cant-change-a-single-file Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMT The audit half of my Codex skill collection ships with no write permission at all. That constraint is the product, not a limitation. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/vellum-is-mostly-a-list-of-things-it-wont-do https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/vellum-is-mostly-a-list-of-things-it-wont-do Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMT Every feature I deliberately left out of Vellum, plus the unit test I wrote to stop myself from putting them back. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/concrete-and-code https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/concrete-and-code Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:00:00 GMT Skateboarding and software development use the same mental muscles. A decade in both worlds, and the Venn diagram is nearly a circle. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/18-days-with-openclaw-the-brutal-beautiful-truth-about-running-an-ai-agent-system https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/18-days-with-openclaw-the-brutal-beautiful-truth-about-running-an-ai-agent-system Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:00:00 GMT What 18 days of building and fixing an AI agent system actually looked like once the hype wore off. Six lessons, one 8-day blackout. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/the-most-underrated-skill-in-vibe-coding-is-vocabulary https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/the-most-underrated-skill-in-vibe-coding-is-vocabulary Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT Knowing what things are called matters more than knowing how to build them. The bottleneck in AI-assisted work is vocabulary, not syntax. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/i-didnt-know-what-was-supposed-to-be-hard https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/i-didnt-know-what-was-supposed-to-be-hard Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT Coming from ops with no development background turned out to be the advantage. I had no idea which of my ideas were supposed to be impossible. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/learning-ai-without-becoming-that-guy https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/learning-ai-without-becoming-that-guy Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT Learning AI from an ops mindset. No custom pipelines, no waiting for permission, just pointing it at problems I already understood. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/all-the-ways-things-creep https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/all-the-ways-things-creep Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMT Most of what slows a project down isn't what you build. It's what you keep. I worked that out later than I should have. https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/active-directory-still-looks-like-that https://loserlabs.dev/blogs/active-directory-still-looks-like-that Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:00:00 GMT One of the most critical systems in the enterprise still has an interface from another decade, and everyone has quietly agreed to live with it.