Posts

An attention focus tells an agent where to look. A persona tells it how to think.

Small differences in prompts produce wildly different outputs. You can fight that or you can use it.

I treated Claude like a junior engineer, taught it principles, and watched it grow. Two weeks later, it’s on my short list.

The ideas behind Parma, explained like we’re sitting at a bar and you asked me what I’d been working on.

How Peter Alvaro’s lineage-driven fault injection clicked with me, and why I ended up at Antithesis.

My wish list for a code management tool that actually understands how I work.

How a younger me chose C over Ada, and what that choice taught me about how we pick technologies.

Technical debt isn’t always the enemy. Sometimes it’s a deliberate trade-off that lets you move forward.

How conversations with Kathy Sierra changed the way I think about teaching and writing Storm Applied.

Behind-the-scenes vignettes from writing Storm Applied — rejected subtitles, manuscript struggles, and The Jam.