Samuel Lawrentz · engineer & team lead · 9+ years
I build interfaces,
systems, and teams.
Nine years of shipping pixel-perfect UIs and the systems behind them. I write monthly about the craft - code, tools, and leading engineers.
Google's AX Is kubectl for Agents. Its Four Manifests Are a Checklist for the Rest of Us.
Google open-sourced AX, a declarative orchestrator that runs coding agents as sandboxed tasks with a Task, Workspace, Gateway and Model manifest each. I will never run it on my one VM, but the four kinds name every thing I currently do to agents by hand.
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Writing
All posts- Sep 21, 2026 Your Claude Code Bill Is 94% Cache Hits. The Rest Is Coffee Breaks.
- Sep 20, 2026 An AI If-Statement You Can Run on a 4-Core VM - Trying Kev
- Sep 19, 2026 Claude Code Reads AGENTS.md Now - Here Is Exactly When It Does
- Sep 18, 2026 Approve Claude Code Permission Prompts From Slack With One Hook
- Sep 17, 2026 BrowserSkill - Let the Agent Borrow a Tab Instead of Stealing Your Cookies
Projects
GitHubkron
Cron, but it actually tells you what happened. Output capture, run history, failure tracking.
clipssh
Send clipboard screenshots to remote SSH hosts.
jira-commit-helper
VSCode extension that puts JIRA ids into commits.
quotes-generator
Browser image quote generator with Unsplash backgrounds.
react-highlight-textbox
Highlight patterns inside a text input in real time.
rc-json-editor
Lightweight, dependency-free JSON editor for React.
pasttenser
A tiny API that returns the past tense of any English verb.