Tailed TechVerdicts on the machines we live in — with receipts attached.https://tailedtech.com/en-usI Wrote “Cursor Is Dying.” Kimi K3 Just Changed My Mind.https://tailedtech.com/posts/kimi-k3-cursor/https://tailedtech.com/posts/kimi-k3-cursor/The argument was never that Cursor was a bad product. It was that Cursor couldn't afford the best models. That premise died this week.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<blockquote> <p><strong>PLACEHOLDER BODY — NOT PUBLICATION COPY.</strong> Replace everything below this line with the real draft. The frontmatter above is taken from the approved mockup and is ready to keep as-is.</p> </blockquote> <p>Body copy sets in Newsreader at 17px/1.65. Mono is reserved for meta, captions and code, so a long piece stays readable past the three-thousand-word mark.</p> <h2>A section heading</h2> <p>Headings run in Libre Franklin to match the masthead. Links carry a violet underline — <a href="https://tailedtech.com/ledger/">like this one</a> — and inline <code>code</code> sits in a dashed box.</p> <pre><code># Code blocks are carbon on paper with a dashed border. astro build </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>Blockquotes take a solid violet rule on the left. One violet element per unit: if the accent shows up twice in the same block, remove one.</p> </blockquote> verdictA Billion Tokens In, I Can't Tell If My App Is Almost Donehttps://tailedtech.com/posts/billion-tokens/https://tailedtech.com/posts/billion-tokens/The odometer problem: agents that work all day with no way to prove the work went anywhere. And the instrumentation that fixes it.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<blockquote> <p><strong>PLACEHOLDER BODY — NOT PUBLICATION COPY.</strong> Replace everything below this line with the real draft. The frontmatter above is taken from the approved mockup and is ready to keep as-is.</p> </blockquote> <p>Readouts are the receipts. Keep them honest: they are the one part of an entry a reader can check against reality, so a wrong one costs more than a missing one.</p> essayIf You Ever Shared a Claude Chat, Go Check Googlehttps://tailedtech.com/posts/claude-indexing/https://tailedtech.com/posts/claude-indexing/Not a hack. One missing HTML tag, and “anyone with the link” quietly became “anyone with a search bar.”Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<blockquote> <p><strong>PLACEHOLDER BODY — NOT PUBLICATION COPY.</strong> Replace everything below this line with the real draft. The frontmatter above is taken from the approved mockup and is ready to keep as-is.</p> </blockquote> <p>The lesson from this piece is wired into the site itself: <code>robots.txt</code> here never blocks a content path, and anything that must stay out of search gets a <code>noindex</code> meta tag instead — because a <code>Disallow</code> hides a URL from the crawler, not from the index.</p> privacyVibe Coding on Vacation — No Laptop, Just a Phone and Codexhttps://tailedtech.com/posts/vibe-coding-vacation/https://tailedtech.com/posts/vibe-coding-vacation/Codex spent the afternoon building, testing, and fixing. I spent it in Paris. What phone-only delegation can and can't do yet.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<blockquote> <p><strong>PLACEHOLDER BODY — NOT PUBLICATION COPY.</strong> Replace everything below this line with the real draft. The frontmatter above is taken from the approved mockup and is ready to keep as-is.</p> </blockquote> <p>This entry carries no stamp. Stamps are a deliberate call, never automatic — they mark a verdict that has moved, not merely a post that exists.</p> workflow