Writing
Every piece here comes out of a real incident on our own machines, with the dates and commits attached. If a rule only works on our setup, it does not get written up.
17 August 2026
I cut a 748,980-token instruction dump to about 5,500. The session still carried 84 skill descriptions bidding to fire. Includes the two-question sort you can run on your own box in ten minutes.
10 August 2026
I asked my phone for a tree identifier app while standing in a forest. It ran a feasibility check before writing a line: can the hard part work, and should this exist at all. Four steps, a cap, and a verdict that is allowed to be no.
7 August 2026
I deleted a false claim from my website on July 8. On July 27 I found my own agent still drafting from it, in a config section labelled safe to state as fact. Includes the ten-minute audit for finding every copy a claim has left behind.
27 July 2026
The three ways AI coding tools charge, the cost maths behind bring-your-own-key, and the six questions worth asking before paying once instead of monthly.
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