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Engineering

  1. 01EngineeringThe Invisible MachineWhy the part nobody looks at is the part that actually worksAug 02, 20263 min read
  2. 02EngineeringWhat Is an AI Agent, Actually?Ask two AI systems the same thing: "Sort out my expense report."Jul 31, 20262 min read
  3. 03EngineeringWhy AI is bad at math (and why some models now aren't)This one trips people up. If AI is so smart, why does it confidently tell you that 17 times 24 is 488 when the answer is 408?Jul 31, 20261 min read
  4. 04EngineeringThe Sophistication TrapWhy more agents feel smarter and quietly build worseJul 23, 20263 min read
  5. 05EngineeringThe Productivity IllusionWhy your sharpest engineers feel fastest at the exact moment they slow downJul 22, 20263 min read
  6. 06EngineeringFinding anything in a git repo: working tree, commits, and historyGrep finds a string in your working treeJul 02, 20263 min read
  7. 07EngineeringDebugging Coveo UA: when the dashboard JSON lies to youI spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the Coveo Usage Analytics API was not working right.Jul 02, 20263 min read
  8. 08EngineeringThe git aliases worth stealingMy `[alias]` block has grown to a few hundred lines over the years, and most of it is junk I wrote once and never used again.Jul 02, 20264 min read