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Some thoughts don't need essays. They just need somewhere to land. Bytes are the small ones: thoughts that appear mid-commute, mid-debug, mid-coffee. I post them from Telegram or the terminal, whichever is open, and whichever I'm probably procrastinating in when the brain buffer overflows. Stay connected on the telegram channel for latest bytes.

Now that everyone is moving to .html as alternative for .md, I regret keeping my blog system in .mdx wall of text in the name of minimalismmay 10

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To prevent cognitive surrender or reveal fatigue, it helps to imagine the outline of an answer, 5 lines or 50, before asking the agent for one. Not to predict it perfectly, but to have a surface against which the agentic response can meaningfully collide or calibrate.may 7

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A vibed prototype tests what's possible. But lets remember that engineering is the disciplined practice of turning possibilities into systems that deliver precise, reliablem and efficient outcomes under real-world constraints, especially at scale.may 4

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Most agent regressions are process regressions, not intelligence regressions. Better scaffolding for repository conventions, explicit tool/library preferences and tight self-review gates helpsapr 20

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Writing about my agentic experiences has made a plateau clearer: still operating in a rudimentary loop. One step at a time, occasional plans, occasional one-shot or sometimes planned orchestration, but little structure that carries forward.apr 17

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With agentic workflows, instincts atrophy. Not because the knowledge disappears, but because the activation pattern changes from a shift in when and how it gets activated.apr 16

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Goodhart's law shows up everyday now. The system keeps producing, the bar just moves. Once the output becomes the target, quality stops being the constraint.mar 31

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Careful reading as a skill is like returning home in the vibe-or-ngmi age. Eventually, interfaces will become truly multimodal, until then, really slowing the fuck down. to read. To read carefully. Building tighter workflows.mar 31

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Consuming generated content, especially writing, is still not normalized. It's a little murkey whether that's because the output feels plastic or unnecessarily verbose, or because it now takes longer to read something than it did to produce it.mar 31

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When something arrives already structured and reasonable, it quietly removes the impulse to interrogate it. That absense of questioning is harder to notice than the mistake itself.mar 27

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