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title: "Micheál Reilly"
description: "First-hand notes by Micheál Reilly on agentic AI tooling, software development, learning systems, institutions, and economic history."
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# Micheál Reilly
First-hand notes by Micheál Reilly on agentic AI tooling, software development, learning systems, institutions, and economic history.

## Latest writing
- [Mountain to Climb Updates - Convergence Explorer](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/mountain-to-climb-updates-convergence-explorer/) — New updates to the Convergence Explorer: a tidier sidebar and footer, fresh World Bank data, and energy transition data from Ember.
- [Notes on Visual Interfaces, AI Tooling, Fast LLMs and Decision Models](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/notes-visual-interfaces-ai-tooling-fast-llms-decision-models/) — Why agentic work is stuck in text, and what canvases, fast models, branching version graphs, and decision models might add.
- [Building Explainers Random Thoughts - Drone 101](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/building-explainers-random-thoughts-drone-101/) — An experiment in interactive explainers: drone control, Fourier, Bret Victor, philosophical prompts, accessibility, and learning with LLMs.
- [Emerging Field of Epistemic Engineering or Stochastic Management](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/emerging-field-epistemic-engineering/) — Practices around context, uncertainty, and evals are hardening into a discipline, with belief states at its centre: probabilistic, grounded views of a work process.
- [Cheaper Code Should Mean More Experiments](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/cheaper-code-more-experiments/) — When working with agentic tools, the instinct to solve hard problems inside your main project is usually wrong. Isolate the core problem first, experiment freely, then bring what works back.
- [Mountain to Climb](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/mountain-to-climb/) — A tool for visualising how long economic catch-up growth actually takes between any two countries or regions
- [Software Architecture That Agents Actually Like](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/agent-friendly-architecture/) — Structural patterns that make codebases easier for AI agents to navigate: composition over monoliths, stateless mini-CLIs, typed languages, and the editor navigation test.
- [Using Agentic AI Tools for Anki Flashcard Creation](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/agentic-ai-anki-flashcard-creation/) — How Claude Code and similar tools can handle the tedious work of expanding concepts into multiple flashcards, and why Anki Connect is the key to making it work.
- [Freeport: A Lightweight Port Management Tool for Development](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/freeport-lightweight-port-management/) — A thin wrapper around native commands to simplify port checking and process management during local development.
- [Exploring the Primitives of an Agentic Coding Setup](https://actuallymaybe.com/blog/exploring-primitives-agentic-coding-setup/) — Reflecting on the foundational layers of agentic systems, from Git workflows and networking to storage and sandboxing, rather than high-level orchestration.