<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Man and Machine</title><id>https://qstve.com/feeds/native-man-and-machine.xml</id><link href="https://qstve.com/feeds/native-man-and-machine.xml" rel="self"/><link href="https://qstve.com/writing/man-and-machine/"/><updated>2026-10-08T14:27:53+00:00</updated><author><name>QSTVE</name></author><entry><title>Leave the Questions on the Page</title><id>https://qstve.com/writing/man-and-machine/leave-the-questions-on-the-page/</id><link href="https://qstve.com/writing/man-and-machine/leave-the-questions-on-the-page/"/><published>2026-10-08T14:27:53+00:00</published><updated>2026-10-08T14:27:53+00:00</updated><author><name>Dave Glaser</name></author><summary>I asked Oscar to turn our golf schedule into a calendar I could print. One row was cut off, some dates didn’t agree, and one start time looked wrong.</summary></entry><entry><title>The Most Expensive Token Is the One That Did No Useful Work</title><id>https://qstve.com/writing/man-and-machine/the-most-expensive-token-is-the-one-that-did-no-useful-work/</id><link href="https://qstve.com/writing/man-and-machine/the-most-expensive-token-is-the-one-that-did-no-useful-work/"/><published>2026-09-30T06:45:00-04:00</published><updated>2026-09-30T06:45:00-04:00</updated><author><name>Dave Glaser</name></author><summary>A year of personal AI produced a simple buying rule: match the route to the work, and use no model when none is needed.</summary></entry></feed>