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#engineering
Every essay in the dispatch tagged with engineering, in reverse chronological order.
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Ai
The Kitchen Is Open
The kitchen just opened. The question is not who gets cut. It is what we finally get to cook.
ai
7 min read
Tools
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
5 min read
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.
tools
5 min read
Ai
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.
ai
5 min read
Ai
The Bookshelf in the Black Hole
Why mastery is now the thing that makes you lost
ai
5 min read
Ai
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.
ai
5 min read