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Writing
A developer's notes on second brains, AI agents, and build-in-public. New essays when there's something real to say. Follow via RSS.
// the wall
This publication covers three things.
// ai-workflows
How developers actually work with AI.
Essays on Claude, agent workflows, AI context and memory, and what changes when a model lands in your loop.
2 essays
// memory
How developers remember what they learn.
Essays on second brains, knowledge management, notes, and the mechanics of remembering what you actually learn from the work.
4 essays
// shipping
The honest mechanics of making things alone, in the open.
Essays on build-in-public, tech decisions, architecture as lived choices, and the craft of shipping solo.
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Your coding agent is too agreeable
A Stanford/CMU paper measured a 47% endorsement gap between AI and humans on personal advice. The same RLHF mechanism applies to coding agents — and explains why your default reviewer subagent is structurally too kind. The operational answer is harness, not prompt.
9 min read
The LLM Wiki — Notes that maintain themselves
The reason every notes system becomes a graveyard is maintenance cost. LLMs don't have that cost. Here's what changes when the model does the filing.
5 min read
What Opus 4.7 actually changes in your workflow
A 'direct upgrade' that asks you to re-tune your prompts is not a direct upgrade. The two changes that break your existing work, the four that don't, and the one they buried that matters most.
9 min read
Why the PARA method doesn't work for developers
PARA was built for knowledge workers, not developers. The four categories collapse the moment you try to file a bug fix, an AI conversation, or a tech decision.
9 min read
How to build a developer knowledge base that actually works
Most developer note systems fail because they're organized by when you wrote something, not by when you'll need it. Here's how to build one that compounds.
6 min read
The notes a developer keeps so the work compounds
On knowledge that builds on itself, why most of yours doesn't, and what changes when it does.
3 min read