Before You Let the Agent Build It
A detailed plan can make a bad idea look very organised. Why I make coding agents defend the plan, inspect the existing code and prove what they changed.
Are You Still Paying for Docs?
Beautiful docs are worth caring about. Renting the machinery to publish them is a separate question. What the typesetting upheaval tells us about the next documentation invoice.
The Work Never Finishes
I can have five or six AI agents working and still feel behind. On building businesses, martial arts, and the habit of making rest something you have to earn.
Someone Still Has to Read It
Even good AI-assisted contributions cost somebody time to review and maintain. What curl’s experience reveals about the work on the receiving end.
The Agent Problem
We are no longer the only ones using the internet. Agents can spend and make commitments, but someone else lives with the consequences. Who supplies the judgment, the limits, and the liability?
The Clone Problem
Open ten generated websites and the family resemblance is hard to miss. What gets lost when models learn from models, and why the strange, difficult edges of human work matter.