Working with AI

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An unattended wooden loom halted mid-pass in a dark mill hall, a broken thread hanging in the light from a single high window, unfinished cloth spread across the floor

Sep 9, 202624 min

LLM Jargonaut 101

A course listing for a profession that does not exist yet, written by someone who has been practising it for two months without a name for it.

Delegation Feedback Loops

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Jul 26, 202638 min

The Detector Retires the Competence

The list of things your team must know is not a property of your domain — it is a variable you control.

Craft Delegation

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Jul 23, 202621 min

Day Ten Should Not Look Like Day One

A working manual for the layer below the framework: context, memory, skills, runbooks, and the habits that make agent work compound.

Feedback Loops LLMs

May 14, 20266 min

On PMs and LLMs: Forwarding the Work of Thinking

He had been asked a question and he had not bothered to answer. Between a wife who could ask and a fish who would grant, he had only to think — and he had not learned to.

Delegation LLMs

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May 4, 202616 min

From Essay to Operating System: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

A day after publishing Renting Competence, I sat back down with the same question and pushed on it harder. The essay had a thesis: if you let an LLM hold the model of your system, you keep shipping bu

LLMs Workflow

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May 4, 202622 min

Renting Competence: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

Here is a question I have been asking developers a lot lately:

Craft LLMs