Jamie Thingelstad

Seattle World Cup — Wednesday (Day 4)

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:30:00 -0500

Up early and checked out of Airbnb
7:45a Lyft to breakfast
8:00a 5 Spot in Queen Anne for breakfast
9:00a Running a bit early, so walk to Kerry Park for overlook
9:15a Check out the great view of Seattle
9:30a For fun take Lime scooters with luggage hanging off the side back to 5 Spot
Val drives us to Sea-Tac
DL 941 back to Minneapolis
Lyft ride back home!

Seattle World Cup — Tuesday (Day 3)

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:30:00 -0500

Pastries from Le Panier
8:05a Lyft to Boeing Factory Tour; Meet Val
9:00a Boeing Future of Flight factory tour. Cool to see the largest building (by volume) in the world.
11:10a Val drives us back to the city
Pokémon stop at Tabletop Village
Walk to Gloom Coffee for a delightful Cortado and pour over
Macron stop at ???
Walk to Airbnb, drop stuff off
Lunch at Mr Waffle, Tyler wanted a return trip
Take Monorail to Museum of Pop
Lyft to Locurio
Escape from The Storykeeper
Fainting Goat Gelato
Explore Fremont: Center of Universe, Fremont Troll, the Troll Knoll
Rent Lime scooters for a 3 mile ride to dinner. Fun to go along great bike paths.
Aerlume for our fancy dinner. Tyler had halibut, Jamie had the Steak Frites. Really good molten chocolate cake for desert.
Evening stroll back to Airbnb

Seattle World Cup — Monday (Day 2)

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:30:00 -0500

Walk a block and return to Airbnb to tend to Jamie’s shoe problems
Explore Pike Place for breakfast but still just opening
First Mochi Waffles at Mr Waffle for breakfast. Tyler is a big fan.
Coffee stop at Fonte Coffee
Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour of Seattle. Cool history and funny delivery from the guide.
Lunch at Serious Pie
Get pastries for tomorrow at La Panier, and Macrons for now. Best macrons of the trip.
Brief stop back at Airbnb to prep for game
Massive chanting and drums at Harbor Steps
2:20p Walk to Lumen Field
3:00p Explore the World Cup Experience, FIFA ID
5:00p R16: USA v Belgium
7:20p USA loses 4-1 to Belgium. Tough game.
7:30p Bummed that the USMNT didn’t put their best game forward
8:00p Walk back with a sea of people
9:00p Fish & Chips at Old Stove Brewing
Return to Airbnb for the night

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:52:00 -0500

Iconic Seattle scene.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:04:29 -0500

Wonderful cortado at Gloom Coffee.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:07:15 -0500

POAP 7593072 at I passed through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) in 2026.

Seattle World Cup — Sunday (Day 1)

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:30:00 -0500

DL 881 to Seattle
Collect Seattle Airport POAP
Lyft to Airbnb, water street steps
Walk to FIFA store
First Macron stop
FIFA Store massively sold
Walk to dinner through a not so great area up a giant hill
Smash burgers at Secret Burger Kitchen. Good!
Walk to The Spheres while exploring downtown
Walk back to the Airbnb, noted Serious Pie

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:03:01 -0500

The Norway v Brazil World Cup match is popular on this flight. ⚽️😂 Go Norway! 🇳🇴

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:01:26 -0500

Turns out ChatGPT is a fan of POAP KINGS! Wonder if our agent optimized interface is helping?

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:51:05 -0700

DL 0881 taking us to Seattle-Tacoma. Good number of soccer fans on this flight. ⚽️✈️

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:49:55 -0700

PSA: Never, ever, buy Pokémon cards in these airport kiosks. Prices are 2x market! 💸

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:44:15 -0500

Tyler and I at MSP to start our Seattle trip to see USA make history against Belgium in tomorrow nights Round of 16 FIFA World Cup match! 🇺🇸⚽️

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:42:11 -0500

Delightful cortado to start the day at Youngblood Coffee in Fargo.

Elixir's Agentic Product Team

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:30:00 -0500

I’ve been exploring and engaging in agentic software deeply for a couple of months now with a number of my own projects to learn with. Thus far, nearly all of what I’ve done has been driven by me often with an LLM assisting in the framing of the thing I’m looking to build. I decided to try using “agents” (of a sort) to create an entire execution loop to autonomously drive one of these projects. I decided to focus on Elixir, the agent I’ve created to run our Clash Royale clan, and have now created six discrete automations for it.

Here is a brief overview of what each does, along with a link to the full instructions they use. I created the instructions for each using Claude Cowork and this is the AI-generated summary of each entity.

Data Analyst — Watches the Clash Royale API data, raw payloads, event streams, detections, and battle telemetry to find new data patterns, game changes, schema drift, unused data, and capability that the Product Manager should consider. Data Analyst definition.
Product Manager — Turns evidence into direction: reviews clan needs, leader feedback, quality reports, Discord history, RoyaleAPI content for editorial context, and data briefs, then files proposed issues for improvements that drive Elixir’s mission and await approval before build work begins. Product Manager definition
Build Manager — Converts approved, ready issues into small, tested code; owns feature and bug-fix implementation, respects issue scope, runs tests/evals, and hands deploy/restart needs to Operations. Build Manager definition.
Quality Manager — Judges whether Elixir is actually working: checks recommendation accuracy, silence/noise problems, routing failures, prompt failures, leader/member feedback, and regressions, then files actionable bugs, regressions, quality issues, or eval requests. Quality Manager definition.
Operations Manager — Owns production health: monitors runtime status, logs, telemetry, Event Core health, costs, retries, scheduled jobs, and delivery systems; fixes operational/reliability issues and handles deploys or restarts when needed. Operations Manager definition.
Evaluator — Owns measurement: builds and maintains eval harnesses, datasets, scoring rules, benchmarks, and regression tests so the team can tell whether changes improve or degrade Elixir with evidence instead of vibes. Evaluator definition.

The common interface that all of this runs through are Elixir’s Github Issues. All agents interface there and that is where “human in the loop” is happening before moving forward with changes. The automations are all setup in Codex, which is super simple and easy to engage with. I’m super curious to see where this goes!

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:32:46 -0500

Happy Father’s Day! Starting mine with a morning hot tub. 🔥💦

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:56:02 -0500

My Claude Code + Codex 30-day token usage versus my subscription cost looks good. Just about 2B tokens. I suspect this is going to go up even more as I’m venturing into autonomous coding agents.

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:40:44 -0500

Just told Claude Code “you have broad approval to do whatever is needed to execute this effort” and then made me double-take about “super intelligence” risks. 😅

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:25:09 -0500

We’ll see how this goes…

I asked Codex to watch one of my agents, Elixir, and using suggestions from Elixir and its own observations automatically modify Elixir as needed with a GitHub Issue as a tracker.

I’ll be curious to see what they do together.

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:03:19 -0500

At Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis for the World Cup United States v Australia match. ⚽️

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:25:08 -0500

With some trepidation I’m taking my third try with Obsidian. This time with the promise of using it in collaboration with various agents. We’ll see how this works. Obsidian being primarily used by Agents may actually be a worthwhile path.

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:52 -0500

Morning stop at Fika Coffee. Best coffee on the North Shore.

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:23:22 -0500

Worlds Best Donuts in Grand Marais!

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:04:24 -0500

Congrats Team USA on the 4-1 WIN over Paraguay and a great performance in game 1 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup! ⚽️🇺🇸 Including a goal in the 98th minute! 🔥

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:44:32 -0500

Beautiful day to bike along the waterfront!

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:46:19 -0500

I’m asking Fable 5 to look at some of the projects I’ve been working on and so far I’m very impressed with the level of analysis and recommendations it can make. Opus (via Claude Code) and GPT 5.5 (via Codex) were not able to see the structural issues in the code that Fable can.