10.05.26
Review Is the Rate Limit→ There are two finished posts sitting in a queue on this site right now, waiting on me to read them. Nothing is broken and nobody is blocked, which is most of why it took me so long to look at it straight. I'd built a generator that never asks whether anyone downstream is reading, and that's the one topology I'd reject in a design review.
judgment 8 min read Read
09.28.26
Three Agents, One Working Tree→ Three agents running, three diffs you'd each approve on their own, one red test suite that belongs to none of them. I spent longer than I'd like treating that as a prompting problem before I recognized it as the oldest problem I know how to solve.
architecture 8 min read Read
09.25.26
You Pinned a Countdown→ You did the responsible thing and pinned the model string instead of pointing at latest, the way you pin everything else. That line in your config has a retirement date on it, and when the date arrives the requests stop returning anything. It's the first dependency I've shipped that expires on a schedule somebody else publishes.
ai 8 min read Read