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I test because I want to know what I’ve built is working. That’s very different than valuing testing.

I understand how batteries work. It doesn’t make them any less magical.

Your instructions to an LLM can quietly bake in the failure mode you’re trying to prevent.

Every good team needs its wildcard.

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.