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.
LLMs
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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.
On the Last Human Sports: An Erratum on Flirting
A correction to the codex. The management regrets nothing.
On the Last Human Sports: The Rules of Trolling
There is a leaderboard for everything now. Two games take no machine entry — and one of them has iguanas in it.
Call me Cassandra
Three years holding this back. Done holding.
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.
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
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: