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The Finish Line Keeps Moving
Before TutorPro's soft launch, I had agents rebuild its help center from the source code. They found a tutor who couldn't accept a parent's request while 13,758 tests passed, and every pass since has found more. Quality is still the hard part of agentic development, and I want your ideas for closing the gap.
Feeding the Factory: One Paragraph In, Three Tasks Queued
A trace through one real session: the paragraph I typed, the standing rules and memory already loaded before it, the lint that gates every spec before an issue exists, and the three dependency-ordered agent tasks that came out the far end. Both skill files are linked as public gists.
I Built My Own Claude Tag
Anthropic put Claude in Slack. I already had Claude running on a Mac mini with my tools, my checkouts, and my task queue, so I gave that one a Slack handle instead. Now I @mention composer with anything, it remembers the thread, and this week it talked me through my own stale rule before pulling a repo.
Time, Not Safety
Two of the most powerful people in computing published essays weeks apart asking the world to slow down or brace for impact. I read them as someone who was terrified of losing his job to AI, bet on himself, and landed on his feet. The bet bought time, not safety.
The Catalogue Tax: Why I Still Hand My Agents a CLI
Every MCP server you attach re-sends its tool catalogue on every request, and a new controlled study shows most agent harnesses pay that tax eagerly. Here's what MCP really costs in tokens and speed — and why I still give my agents a CLI when a good one exists.
Teaching the Factory to Pick Its Own Tools
My AI dev platform was choosing models with a regex. A $54 accounting bug, one research paper, and a morning of planning later, Composer is building its own complexity-aware model router. Here's the design.
The Inverse Architecture: Building the System That Builds the Systems
Four months ago I introduced Composer, my AI software factory. Since then it's shipped 642 pull requests for about $4K — and I've stopped reading the code. Here's the architecture everyone else is chasing backwards.