#AI & Agents
#Architecture

A category has grown up selling businesses a way to get cited by AI, and most of what it sells does not survive a test. What holds up is server-render...

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Sep 10, 2026
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#Method
#AI & Agents
#Architecture

An instruction for an agent used to have four homes and all four leak. A skill file costs one line until the work matches its description, then it loa...

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Sep 9, 2026
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#Method
#CI/CD
#AI & Agents
#Architecture

An agent writes most of the code here and no second engineer reads it before it ships, so a standard that depends on someone noticing does not survive...

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Sep 8, 2026
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#Method
#CI/CD
#AI & Agents
#Architecture

On a codebase an agent writes and nobody else reviews, the lint gate is the code review. For nine months it was green, running a preset with the rules...

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Sep 6, 2026
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#Product
#Keystone
#APIs & MCP
#Growth

Giant Context is a marketing platform where the intelligence is the operator. A model reads what a business is, works out what its marketing is missin...

Jesse James Richard

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Sep 2, 2026
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#War story
#Architecture
#Testing
#Keystone

Ten days of frontend performance work on the public site, including the four hypotheses that turned out to be wrong. Images were served raw because a ...

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Sep 1, 2026
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#Method
#CI/CD
#Architecture
#Testing

The Go port of the TypeScript compiler promises full builds eight to twelve times faster. Whether a codebase can adopt it before the release settles d...

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Aug 30, 2026
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#War story
#Architecture
#AI & Agents

I price Giant Context at $25 per million tokens and had no defensible answer to what it costs to serve a thousand customers. Four of the five cost cla...

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Aug 30, 2026
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#War story
#Testing
#CI/CD

The test cache made the suite fast by replaying old results instead of running the tests. Deleting it was correct and it made everything slower. Then ...

Jesse James Richard

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Aug 29, 2026
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#War story
#APIs & MCP
#AI & Agents
#Keystone

The API doubles as tools an agent can call, opt in per route from the same description that generates the SDK. I tested it like an API and everything ...

Jesse James Richard

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Aug 28, 2026
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