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Short thoughts. Quiet observations. Signals in the noise.

June 2026

  1. Kinda fed up with cont. topping up of OpenAI credits. Burned a lot on API keys for my tiny experiments. Finally, it was time to write a solution to reuse my own OpenAI subscription. Built iris, a zero-dependency Typescript client. Here is the repo: aneesahammed/iris. Iris lets your code call the Codex backend using your ChatGPT/Codex subscription auth. No OPENAI_API_KEY, no separate API credit balance for these tests.

    PS: This is mainly for local/dev tooling and experiments, not a replacement for the public OpenAI API.

May 2026

  1. Engineers are now expected to work in unfamiliar areas just because AI can “help.” Then they push code they haven’t read, understood, or questioned. The illusion of competence.