Vol. I · No. 1 · Montreal
Herman.
Watching AI change everything, in real time, and writing it down.
Tag · 6 pieces

#engineering

Every essay in the dispatch tagged with engineering, in reverse chronological order.

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The Kitchen Is Open
The kitchen just opened. The question is not who gets cut. It is what we finally get to cook.
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I Know Kung Fu: Load Only the Skills the Mission Needs
Claude Code skills are not plugins. They are not tools. They are knowledge, uploaded at the precise moment it's needed.
Tools
Your IDE is a Dead Pixel
The IDE was designed for humans who write code. If agents write the code, the IDE becomes what the light table became to Disney animators.
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The Ancient Art of Knowing Less
When you create a 'QA engineer' agent, you're not loading specialized capabilities. You're asking a generalist to forget everything except what matters. The sculptor knew this. Now the engineer must learn it.
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The Bookshelf in the Black Hole
Why mastery is now the thing that makes you lost
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The Genius Who Can't Say 'I Don't Know'
Gemini 3 Flash is fast, cheap, and brilliant. It also doesn't know what it doesn't know. First place in knowing. Near last in knowing what it doesn't know.