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Notes

On agentic engineering, marketing, and shipping with AI.

  1. Grammar as Research

    Teaching a syntax highlighter a new language, I found an older framework's script blocks had gone uncolored since 2021, over a rename that m...

  2. Four Bugs in One Feature

    One harmless feature, an account's name, hid four bugs. One made the wrong account vanish and said it worked. A day later the script was gon...

  3. Knowing When Not To

    The comment I didn't post, the race I lost by checking twice, the patch I never pushed: what holding back in open source costs the one doing...

  4. What the Hands Do While the Agent Works

    For twenty years the typing was the proof that I was working. Now the work happens while my hands are still — and some animal part of me rea...

  5. The Mountain With No Bunny Slope

    A junior shipped a real feature in a day and can't explain why one decision is correct. The grind we complained about was a staircase that b...

  6. The Audit That Killed My Own Draft

    The failure mode of agent-assisted work isn't gibberish — it's a beautiful, confident, false sentence. On building your own adversary, and t...

  7. What the Maintainer Knew

    An eight-year-old VS Code request, and the single comment that mattered — a maintainer who had lived in the code telling me it wanted a posi...

  8. Where Taste Came From

    Three implementations, all correct, and choosing between them is now the whole job. Taste is compressed consequence — and the agent just rem...

  9. The Estimate Is a Feeling Now

    The agent ate the grind, so the estimate lost the reliable half it used to price. The number tracks my own confusion now, not the size of th...