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32 entries indexed

Where to begin

Start here if you have not read anything yet.

The archive is ordered by date, which is useful once you know your way around and useless before that. These are the pieces I would hand someone first.

01 / Editorial selection

The five

  1. 01 My Agentic Web Development Setup Is Basically a `while True` Loop The whole argument in one project: several models, a real budget, two cost walls, and the honest admission that the automation removed variance rather than time.
  2. 02 The Model Is Not the Development Environment Twelve million input tokens for a boring feature. What that number says about the environment agents work in, rather than the models themselves.
  3. 03 AI Speeds Up Coding, Not Engineering The practical one. Where to delegate, where not to, and the prompts I actually use — anchored to a production failure that no model would have caught.
  4. 04 I Couldn't Become a 10x Developer On context-switching across six projects and arriving at 1.5x. The most personal thing here, and the one people send to their friends.
  5. 05 Human-in-the-Loop Is a Lie We Tell Ourselves Before Clicking "Approve All" Approval fatigue is not governance. An argument for programmatic boundaries around machines and real accountability for people.

02 / Long form

Read the field guide

05 AI-Native Software Engineering A practical guide to the shift from AI-assisted coding to an engineering operating model built around clear intent, reliable execution, verification, governance, and accountability. 03 The Cuegence Postmortem A startup that was killed ten days after it was imagined: the longitudinal learning model that made it beautiful, the six school conversations that priced it, and the difference between a great engineering problem and a great business.

03 / Everything else

Browse by system

Complete index
SYS_01

AI

19 entries

AI systems, coding agents, context engineering and automation that does useful work beyond the chat window.
SYS_02

Software Engineering

16 entries

Architecture, systems design, developer workflows and the practice of building software that lasts.
SYS_03

Infrastructure

4 entries

Servers, backups, deployment, networking and the unglamorous machinery that everything else depends on.
SYS_04

Linux

3 entries

Desktops, tiling window managers, terminals and the operating system I actually work in.
SYS_05

Startups

3 entries

Building companies around technical ideas — validation, market reality, pricing and the decisions to stop.
SYS_06

Technology

3 entries

Longer-term arguments about humans, machines and the direction of computing.