Needs a share memory somehow

.gitignore saves the day

The Simplest Feedback Loop Make a skill. Use it. Reflect on it. Repeat.

open.substack.com/pub/engineer...

Don't overcomplicate it

It is a database with some extra stuff

LLM Doomer episode of Svelte Radio coming out today.

That's more than a 2 pizza team

Traditional Cost of Goods Sold tracking: Redshift, Airflow DAGs, weeks in the BI worklog.
Yesterday I built the same thing with Claude Code skills in a day.
Bronze → Silver → Gold, but the refining is agentic.

open.substack.com/pub/engineer...

Wiggumate

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New post: Zero Trust Launch Day
We couldn't predict what would break. So we built the instrumentation to search production instead. First client team fully live, sub-one-hour resolution on blocks.
open.substack.com/pub/engineer...

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Orchestrate to Survive the Speed The factory floor is uncomfortable

Running 3-5 Claude Code instances in parallel. They're all productive. They're all stuck waiting on me.
The speed isn't the problem. Surviving it is.
New post on multi-agent orchestration, what stage 6 actually feels like.
open.substack.com/pub/engineer...

3 books in to Iain Banks Culture series. Its amazing how prescient he was

Congrats man 🎉

I Pokedexd our employee chart

Looks more like a cat

How do I know this isn't the same as a pelican on a bicycle

Even with skills and mcps I've been seeing it just create a /tmp tool

Happy New Year 🎊

claude code now manages its own ephemeral functions and data 🤯

roi on opus 4.5 is incalculable

Build vs Buy The spreadsheet comparison misses the real cost

Build vs buy math everyone gets wrong:
You're not comparing SaaS cost to engineer salary. You're comparing it to what that engineer would've shipped instead.

Means we are willing to pay more for it because @anthropic.com built something that actually cooks

State of AI | OpenRouter An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.

"AI will commoditize" crowd in shambles.

OpenRouter data shows demand is price-inelastic. Users pay 40x more for Claude over commodity models. Happily.

Quality > cost because what I'm comparing against is my own lost time.

openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

After launch

The Asymmetry Between Construction and Destruction What's worth protecting when rebuilding is cheap

Notre Dame took 180 years to build. It burned in hours. Restoration took 5 years and billions.
Last week, a scoping bug wrote bad data for hours. Fix took minutes. Cleanup took days.
The asymmetry between construction and destruction governed everything. Still?

Gemini Flash beating Pro could just be a sign of overfitting on RL, right?

the fact that codex now supports skills is telling

this type of procedural knowledge is durable and useful

SOAP, GraphQL, MCP. It's just branding..

Query all the things!

My dad jokes are usually cached