Notes
Shorter pieces.
Individual problems worth writing down — usually because the obvious solution was wrong, or because the failure mode was invisible.
- Working with agents
When building is free, judgment is the job
Agents made producing software nearly free. The judgment in front of the work and behind it got no cheaper at all, and my capacity for it is fixed. That inversion — not the speed — is what actually changed about the work.
- Infrastructure
My development environment was a server
One always-on machine, provisioned like production, that was simultaneously a warm CI runner and the place I worked — why, what it cost, and the reversal thirteen days later.
- Open source
A compiler for agent context
Code that lies gets caught by a compiler. The instruction files we hand coding agents get executed instead. groundtruth turns those claims into assertions that fail in CI.