--- title: "Signals" description: "Essays tagged Signals." url: "https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/" --- # Signals Category # Signals Essays tagged Signals. These are the pieces that cluster around the same argument, discipline, or signal stream. [![Signals. I Built a Toolbox for Robots. Well, Claude Did.](https://caruana.me/assets/images/caruana-utils.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-10-14-signals-a-toolbox-for-robots/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [Signals. I Built a Toolbox for Robots. Well, Claude Did.](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-10-14-signals-a-toolbox-for-robots/) I built another website. You know the disclaimer by now: I wrote no code. I described what I wanted, Claude built it, I said "no, not like that", Claude built it again, and somewhere around the third round of me explaini... October 14, 2026 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-10-14-signals-a-toolbox-for-robots/) [![Direct Message References Instead of Comments](https://caruana.me/assets/images/article-dmr.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-05-05-direct-messages-instead-of-comments/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) ### [Direct Message References Instead of Comments](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-05-05-direct-messages-instead-of-comments/) I just redesigned this website, which is a sentence that sounds like I spent a month lovingly handcrafting components in a code editor. That is not what happened. I wrote no code. I architected the thing, governed the wo... May 5, 2026 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-05-05-direct-messages-instead-of-comments/) [![AI Integration and the Machine Economy: We are on notice.](https://caruana.me/assets/images/ai-jobs-adoption.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-05-20-ai-integration-and-the-machine-economy-we-are-on-notice/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [AI Integration and the Machine Economy: We are on notice.](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-05-20-ai-integration-and-the-machine-economy-we-are-on-notice/) Head out of the sand: AI isn’t politely knocking at the door, it’s already rearranging our furniture. Our latest snapshot (Anthropic Economic Index, 2025 03 27) dishes out AI Integration Scores (0–100) across wage bands.... May 20, 2025 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-05-20-ai-integration-and-the-machine-economy-we-are-on-notice/) [![Signals. Edition Three. (Aug 12, 2024 - Aug 16, 2024)](https://caruana.me/assets/images/wtf-3.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-16-signals-edition-three/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) [Life](https://caruana.me/writing/category/life/) ### [Signals. Edition Three. (Aug 12, 2024 - Aug 16, 2024)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-16-signals-edition-three/) Welcome to another edition of Signals. The world is a fascinating, ever changing circus, and the point of this series is to isolate the moments that matter before they get absorbed into the background. A signal is the ev... August 16, 2024 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-16-signals-edition-three/) [![Signals. Edition Two. (Aug 5, 2024 - Aug 9, 2024)](https://caruana.me/assets/images/wtf2.jpeg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-09-signals-edition-two/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Economics](https://caruana.me/writing/category/economics/) ### [Signals. Edition Two. (Aug 5, 2024 - Aug 9, 2024)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-09-signals-edition-two/) Signals is where I log the stories and events that grabbed my attention because they seem to reveal something larger than the headline itself. A signal is not noise, not content, and not commentary for its own sake; it i... August 9, 2024 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-09-signals-edition-two/) [![Signals. Edition One. (Jul 29, 2024 - Aug 2, 2024)](https://caruana.me/assets/images/wtf.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-02-signals-edition-one/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [DAO](https://caruana.me/writing/category/dao/) [Economics](https://caruana.me/writing/category/economics/) ### [Signals. Edition One. (Jul 29, 2024 - Aug 2, 2024)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-02-signals-edition-one/) I’m kicking off a new series called Signals. The idea is simple: a signal is a story, anomaly, or fracture in the present that hints at a larger shift underneath. These are the items that grabbed my attention because the... August 2, 2024 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-02-signals-edition-one/)