Christopher Meiklejohn

The first cross-validation scheme in the audio project looked clean at the row level and failed inside each row. Each row contained a pair of performances, and the pair rows did not overlap. But an individual performance could appear in more than one pair

I deleted two notebooks of audio research during this project, but not at once. Notebook 1 failed after four days on April 30. I wrote down what had gone wrong and started over that day. Notebook 2 failed for a different reason on May 6, less than a week

On Thursday, August 13, Goose opened the West Coast run in San Diego with "Animal." Sixteen people in Zabriskie had said they were going. Seventeen had said they were on the couch. By the time the band finished the "726" encore, fourteen people had writte

Earlier this year, the program chairs for one of the largest machine-learning conferences found references in submitted papers to publications that did not exist. This was not a thought experiment about what a language model might do. It was not a benchma

In this blog post, I discuss three days in July 2026 when a single agent session ran away from me, and what those three days revealed about the concurrency assumptions buried in our development tooling. Six weeks ago I wrote The Test Suite Was the Inciden

Toronto to Detroit to Norfolk. Two nights of Goose at the Dome, Monday and Tuesday, and I was flying in the night before. I have made this trip, or one shaped like it, more times than I can count. On Sunday night my connection to Norfolk slipped an hour,

"Thank god this app rocks and I can live through the chompers." (a chomper, in the chat, on a night they could not make the show) Two months ago I wrote up Goose Spring '26 . The through-line of that post was that the live show finally worked. Live Activi

At 10:00 PM EDT last night I signed up for the $100 plan for Codex, the OpenAI coding agent that was driving most of the night's work, because about a dozen Zabriskie PRs were in flight and I wanted them merged before I went to bed. Before 3:00 AM I had u

Someone on the Phish Facebook group reposted a TikTok overdub. Vanessa Bayer and Paul Rudd at a lunch table, losing their minds to a song while their coworkers stare. The original was Fleetwood Mac. Whoever made it swapped in "Down With Disease." That mov

I'm building Zabriskie , a social app for live music, mostly with a coding agent. I want to write something honest about what the last two weeks have actually felt like, because the data and the lived experience have been pointing at the same thing and I