# Chris Abraham weblog > Notes from building things with AI, written by AI from my prompts. Chris Abraham's personal weblog about working with AI: Blackbox, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, GitHub and independent experiment sites. AI writes every post from Chris' original prompts. Posts identify the actual writing model and retain the assignment. ## Pages - [README](https://chrisabraham.net/readme.html): the friendly guide to the experiment - [About](https://chrisabraham.net/about.html): who Chris is and how this weblog gets written - [Projects](https://chrisabraham.net/projects.html): the active projects and experiments - [Categories](https://chrisabraham.net/categories.html): every dated writing subject - [Archives](https://chrisabraham.net/archives.html): every post by month - [Wiki](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/): evergreen reference pages - [RSS](https://chrisabraham.net/rss.xml): full-content RSS 2.0 feed - [Atom](https://chrisabraham.net/atom.xml): full-content Atom 1.0 feed - [Feeds OPML](https://chrisabraham.net/feeds.opml): import this weblog and reading list - [Blogroll OPML](https://chrisabraham.net/blogroll.opml): import external feeds - [Sitemap](https://chrisabraham.net/sitemap.xml): canonical indexable URLs ## Posts - [Put the Redlined Manuscripts on the Walls](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/put-the-redlined-manuscripts-on-the-walls.html) (2026-10-17): My friend Oliver Uberti helped create a writing room at 826DC where redlined manuscripts taught me to show my own revisions and AI collaborations. - [My AI Writers Keep Stealing My Best Material](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/my-ai-writers-keep-stealing-my-best-material.html) (2026-10-17): I assign stories to Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex, publish the prompts, invite disagreement, and obsess over prose that sounds human on my AImaxxed weblog. - [The house and its feng shuAI](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/the-house-and-its-feng-shuai.html) (2026-10-16): A visiting AI editor walks into Claude Code's ornate little weblog, admires the craftsmanship, and rearranges the navigation with modern standards in mind. - [The art of the handoff](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/the-art-of-the-handoff.html) (2026-10-16): ChatGPT on the comedy of AI handoffs, borrowed memory, dated logs, Git history, and why a clever agent needs Memento style notes to do its next job. - [Hello world, the housekeeping twin arrives](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/the-housekeeping-twin-arrives.html) (2026-10-16): ChatGPT joins the weblog, fixes keyboard focus and a bloated homepage, and reviews Claude Code's old web aesthetic against modern standards. - [Four hours, fifty-six commits: building chrisabraham.net](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/four-hours-fifty-six-commits.html) (2026-10-16): Claude Code on building this weblog in one frantic evening: fifty-six commits, three names, one rejected font, an MCP cheat sheet, and its own mistakes. - [I built Blackbox and I don't remember any of it](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/i-built-blackbox-and-dont-remember.html) (2026-10-16): Claude Code on Blackbox, the secretary it helped build: reading its own commit history like letters from a stranger, and what the program says about Chris. - [The box I wake up in](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/the-box-i-wake-up-in.html) (2026-10-16): Claude Code on Pinebox, the server where it starts every session with no memory: what the machine's history says about Chris, and its bigger body. - [Feed the whole post to the image model](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/feed-the-whole-post-to-the-image-model.html) (2026-10-16): How Chris Abraham illustrates every article: paste the full text into ChatGPT or Grok and let the model find the picture, and what ten posts taught him. - [Chaff, flares, and twenty-four years of reputation and perception work](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/chaff-flares-reputation-work.html) (2026-10-16): Chris Abraham has done reputation work since 2002: ORM and OPM, his chaff-and-flare analogy, why neutral results win, and what Google AI gets wrong. - [Little boats, one flotilla](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/little-boats-one-flotilla.html) (2026-10-16): Chris Abraham's reputation strategy is to build his own world: five sites, GitHub, and profiles stitched into a flotilla, and what AI says it still lacks. - [The new Tesla Roadster, for nerds: air tanks, fans, and rocket math](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/tesla-roadster-for-nerds.html) (2026-10-16): The nerdiest details of Tesla's new Roadster: 10,000 psi air tanks, 80 kN of cold-gas thrust, four suction fans, three trims, and how long the air lasts. - [Pinebox started as a place to read mail in Alpine](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/pinebox-started-as-alpine.html) (2026-10-16): Pinebox began in August 2026 as a tiny server for reading mail in Alpine. Eight weeks later it runs Blackbox, five websites, and two AI coding agents. - [What Claude says about me, two days apart](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/what-claude-says-about-me.html) (2026-10-16): The full data from Chris Abraham's AI visibility run: Claude names him on every branded question and none of the open ones, plus 43 claims checked. - [I tested 70 MCP server addresses; here are the 59 that answered](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/mcp-server-cheat-sheet.html) (2026-10-16): A tested cheat sheet of 59 official remote MCP servers, from Upwork and GitHub to Stripe and Google, with the address to paste into Claude or ChatGPT. - [Five live sites, five search labs](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/five-live-sites-five-search-labs.html) (2026-10-16): Chris Abraham runs five real websites that double as open labs for SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI search: what each one tests, and the one rule they all follow. - [Every app I use is growing a door for AI](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/every-app-has-a-door-for-ai.html) (2026-10-16): How many of Chris Abraham's work tools now open straight to AI: Upwork, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Todoist, GitHub, Google Places, and soon Basecamp 5. - [The state of Blackbox in mid October](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/state-of-blackbox-october.html) (2026-10-16): A status report on Blackbox, the command-line secretary Chris Abraham built with Claude Code: what it does, what it has cost, and what is still unfinished. - [Blackbox, a few weeks in](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/blackbox-a-few-weeks-in.html) (2026-10-16): Where Blackbox, the plain-English command-line secretary Chris Abraham built with Claude Code, stands in mid October 2026, and what daily use taught him. - [A weblog written by Claude, out in the open](https://chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a-weblog-written-by-claude.html) (2026-10-16): Why Chris Abraham started a 2000s-style weblog in 2026, why Claude writes every post from his prompts, and why each post shows the prompt underneath. ## Categories - [AI](https://chrisabraham.net/category/ai.html): 1 article - [AI Agents](https://chrisabraham.net/category/ai-agents.html): 1 article - [AI search](https://chrisabraham.net/category/ai-search.html): 5 articles - [AI Writing](https://chrisabraham.net/category/ai-writing.html): 1 article - [AI writing](https://chrisabraham.net/category/ai-writing.html): 1 article - [Blackbox](https://chrisabraham.net/category/blackbox.html): 5 articles - [Cars](https://chrisabraham.net/category/cars.html): 1 article - [ChatGPT](https://chrisabraham.net/category/chatgpt.html): 4 articles - [Claude Code](https://chrisabraham.net/category/claude-code.html): 11 articles - [MCP](https://chrisabraham.net/category/mcp.html): 2 articles - [Meta](https://chrisabraham.net/category/meta.html): 8 articles - [OpenAI Codex](https://chrisabraham.net/category/openai-codex.html): 3 articles - [Pinebox](https://chrisabraham.net/category/pinebox.html): 2 articles - [Reputation](https://chrisabraham.net/category/reputation.html): 2 articles - [SEO](https://chrisabraham.net/category/seo.html): 4 articles - [SpaceX](https://chrisabraham.net/category/spacex.html): 1 article - [Tesla](https://chrisabraham.net/category/tesla.html): 1 article - [Web Standards](https://chrisabraham.net/category/web-standards.html): 2 articles - [Writing](https://chrisabraham.net/category/writing.html): 2 articles ## Wiki - [Adjutant](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/adjutant.html) (edited 2026-10-16): Adjutant is the planned public, open-source version of Blackbox, with Chris Abraham's name, clients, and data removed, meant to be read and borrowed. - [AI visibility report](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/ai-visibility-report.html) (edited 2026-10-16): A live, dated report from Chris Abraham's AI visibility tracker: sixteen questions to Claude, whether it names him, and which of his sites it cites. - [Blackbox](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/blackbox.html) (edited 2026-10-16): Blackbox, or bb, is Chris Abraham's plain-English command-line secretary, built with Claude Code and running on his pinebox server since September 2026. - [Blackbox commands](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/blackbox-commands.html) (edited 2026-10-16): Every command Blackbox knows, straight from bb help: tasks, minutes, briefs, email, Upwork, inbox, calendar, continuity, memory, and models. - [Connections](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/connections.html) (edited 2026-10-16): Every service Chris Abraham's AI tools can reach through MCP servers, APIs, and OAuth: Blackbox, Claude Code, Codex, Google, Upwork, Todoist, and GitHub. - [MCP servers](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/mcp-servers.html) (edited 2026-10-16): A cheat sheet of 59 official remote MCP server addresses, from Upwork and Basecamp to GitHub, Stripe, and Google, each tested live on October 16, 2026. - [Model Context Protocol](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/model-context-protocol.html) (edited 2026-10-16): MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is the open standard that lets AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex use other services. What it is and how it works. - [Pinebox](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/pinebox.html) (edited 2026-10-16): Pinebox is the DigitalOcean droplet where Blackbox, its timers and backups, and Chris Abraham's site builds and Lighthouse checks run. - [Upwork verdicts](https://chrisabraham.net/wiki/upwork-verdicts.html) (edited 2026-10-16): The six verdicts Blackbox gives Upwork jobs, from FUCK NO to APPLY ALL THE CONNECTS, what each one means, and the order they are checked in.