Putting on an accent for your phone
18 September 2026
Millions of people perform an American accent to make dictation work. The number everybody repeats about fixing that is measuring the most expensive technique there is.
Rules Written as Statute
16 September 2026
I spent months writing rules for an AI and getting worse results the harder I tried — until I stopped writing prose and started writing law.
Five projects nobody expects to run in a coding tool
16 September 2026
None of these produced an app. All of them ran inside Claude Code, on the same method as the software — because what they needed wasn't code, it was structure.
When not to use AI
16 September 2026
The most expensive habit in AI tools isn't asking too little of them. It's asking them to do work that never needed AI at all.
Your AI agent doesn't know when to stop
4 August 2026
Everyone is racing to solve memory. An agent that remembers everything and still decides on its own isn't fixed — it's broken in a way that's harder to catch.
You can't review what you can't read
4 August 2026
Every AI coding tool assumes someone is checking the diff. If you don't read code, nobody is — and scope lock is what stands in for that check.
The industry is waking up to restraint — but not for you
4 August 2026
Agent scope control is becoming a real product category. Every version of it so far assumes you're technical enough to define the boundaries yourself.
The throughline
2 August 2026
A month later you can't remember why you built it that way — the throughline carries the reason alongside the work, so it's never lost.
The build cycle
2 August 2026
You've got the slash commands but not the rhythm — how /plan, /next and /done fit into one repeatable loop, and how to break it.
How ideas travel in Throughliner
2 August 2026
You have an idea mid-build and don't want to lose it — the path every idea follows, from capture to done.
Work item flavours in /next
2 August 2026
Most of your work gets sorted for you — but knowing the three flavours tells you when to ask for an audit, the one you'll reach for yourself.