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  • Jul 31, 2026

    A Software Factory Is No Substitute for Maturity

    The real barrier to the software dark factory isn't agent capability. It's the organizational capability to manage them.

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  • Jun 12, 2026

    A Deep Research Agent That Survives Its Own Failures

    What we learned from making a research agent durable, routed, visible, and eval-driven.

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  • Jun 10, 2026 · Updated

    An autopsy of Claude Code's deep research

    Claude Code's deep-research workflow, pulled from its binary and dissected. Wide search, no second hop.

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  • Jun 03, 2026

    A Harness for Every Run

    A reflection on Anthropic's dynamic workflows post, from someone building a browser agent on the same idea.

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  • Jun 03, 2026

    The Model Is the Smallest Decision You'll Make

    Everyone building agents asks which model to use first. Wrong first question. The harness is where the agent lives or dies.

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  • May 28, 2026

    Serve Markdown to Agents, HTML to Humans

    A copy-paste recipe for content negotiation that gives AI agents clean markdown while browsers keep getting HTML.

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  • May 07, 2026

    Agent-Native Extensibility

    How extensibility shifts from packaged plugins to agent-readable recipes, and why the connector is the new extension point.

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  • Apr 21, 2026

    Trained Qwen to Write Clojure Better Than GPT-5.4 (Kinda)

    I trained a Clojure LLM from my phone. It 'beat' GPT-5.4—kind of. Here's what actually happened.

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  • Apr 07, 2026

    The Hard Problems Nobody Has Solved

    Four unsolved problems blocking the agentic future: correctness, architecture drift, context scaling, and judgment.

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  • Mar 31, 2026

    Bash Owns the Loop

    A durable wrapper pattern for autonomous agents: Bash owns state, validation, recovery, and completion.

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