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Engineering Heresy
Challenging conventional wisdom in AI and software engineering. Deep explanations, mental models, and practical heresies for building better systems with less bullshit.
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I'm Tired of Broken Engineering Hiring, So Here's How I'll Hire Instead
Eng hiring in 2026 still runs on ATS filters and trivia theater. What I'll hire for instead: philosophies that survive hard problems, proven in a…
I Pay My Agent Harness 4× So I Never Have to Babysit Parallel Workers
It reviews its own security, checks its own quality, and writes its own docs — so I can launch a dozen of them and step away. I benchmarked it…
I Kept Blaming the Model. The Fix Was Never in the Model.
I swapped models three times to fix one flaky test. None of it helped. Every reliability lever in AI-assisted development lives in the layers you…
agentic-os v2: The Tool You Installed Isn't the One Running Now
Since the last release I wrote up, agentic-os got about 47% smaller, grew a set of hooks that fight its own context drift, turned them on by…
The Day a Frontier Model Got Switched Off. Security Is Now Metric #1.
A government just switched off a frontier AI model overnight. Why security — not velocity — is now your top engineering metric.
I Got Tired of AI Code Review Noise, So I Built a Ratchet
My four LLM reviewer agents kept re-discovering the same findings, run after run. The fix: tier the checks, ledger the noise, and promote what…
AI Made Engineers Faster. It Also Made Teams Slower to Integrate.
AI made every engineer faster and your team slower to ship. The velocity is on the dashboard. The collaboration tax that pays for it isn't, and I…
Modern Claude Code: The Complete `.claude/` Anatomy
You're using maybe a third of what `.claude/` can do. Here's the complete modern anatomy — organized by directory and scope precedence — and the…
I've Been Gatekeeping the Magic. Here's Everything.
Senior engineers have been quietly building AI scaffolding that juniors never get access to. I just open-sourced mine.