Claude Code
Who Still Understands the Code?
AI coding agents make you dramatically faster. The cost they carry is quieter: a slow erosion of how well you understand the software you are shipping. Here is how I have come to think about that trade, and how I try to stay on the right side of it.
Claude Code
The Harness Is the Product
Where does product quality live in an LLM-based system? A leaked source and a detailed postmortem, both from Anthropic in the last four weeks, make the answer unusually concrete.
Claude Code
Write Skills Like Workstations, Not Prompts
Claude Code skills work best when you treat them as workstations, not prompts: folders with scripts, gotchas, templates, and progressive disclosure that manage the agent's attention budget at runtime.
