WRITING

Writing

Longer pieces — written once the thinking has settled.

17 entries

2026

10-29Four Seconds on a First Visit#Networking#Deployment 10-29Why the Proactive Messages Read Like a Checkup#Agent#Product#Scheduling 10-27The Synthetic Set Picked C. Forty-Four Real Questions Picked B.#Memory#Evaluation#Measurement#LLM 10-27Reply Timing: How a Median of Eight Seconds Was Wrong#Agent#Product#Measurement 10-27Where the Prefix-Cache Hits Went#LLM#Cost#Observability 10-22Sample Age, Catch-up Sampling, and Measurement Validity#Measurement#GPU#Systems 10-22A Failed Batch Stays Failed#Measurement#Data#Systems 10-22Calibrate Your Ruler First#Forensics#Debugging 10-22Already Pushed#Redaction#Git#Release 10-21WorkBuddy Will Corrupt Your Git#Git#WorkBuddy#Forensics 10-21Fixed Three Times, Still Broken#Postmortem#Engineering 10-21Why the More You Write a Persona, the Less Human It Sounds#Prompt#Persona#LLM 10-21Fully Configured, Silently Ignored#Engineering#Observability#LLM 10-19One Fact, Two Implementations#Architecture#Single Source of Truth 10-18Treat the LLM as an Untrusted External Service#LLM#Engineering 10-17Your Tests Are Lying to You#Testing#Engineering 10-16The Hard Part of Proactive Messages Is When Not to Send#Agent#Product#Scheduling