Things that ship

“I used to write clearer instructions. Now I write clearer permissions.”

Rooms I Didn't Ask For

A month ago a model built most of my app without asking me anything, and it taught me something about judgment instead.......

“Fluent is not the same as right.”

The Quiet Variable

Last week I almost shipped something I knew was wrong. On fluency versus rightness, why the stupid questions hide the good work, and......

“Most interesting work doesn't arrive as a clean spec.”

Turning ambiguity into programs

How I take a fast-moving, loosely-defined goal and turn it into a structured program that actually ships — the mental model I use every day......

“It could find the twenty-fifth person. It just couldn't notice that changed the sentence.”

Twenty-Four, Twenty-Five

The model found the expert I'd miscounted, messaged all of them, and still copied my wrong number into every line.......

“We taught them to sound like us. Now we're the ones trying not to sound like them.”

The Tell

The em dash became the giveaway for AI writing, so now we pull it out of our own sentences to prove we're human.......