In Which Math Turns Out to Be the Opposite of a Joke
An 87-year-old math problem died in a tweet during the World Cup final, and the same week a friend asked me how to get AI to stop lying to her. It took me a ...
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In Which I Interview Four People and Their Intern
We were hiring an engineer this summer. The technical interview couldn’t be ‘write me a function’ anymore, because the intern writes the functions now. So we...
In Which I Draw a Few Conclusions About Managing It
The field manual for the overconfident intern. The actual decisions I make before and during the work, and the one-page map I wish someone had handed me two ...
In Which I Hire an Overconfident Intern
You didn’t get a magic tool. You hired an intern who has read everything, never says ‘I don’t know,’ and never sticks around for the consequences. Here is ho...
In Which We Write a Presentation Together (And the AI Has Opinions About Em Dashes)
Building a 5-minute company presentation about agentic engineering, using agentic engineering, in one session. The recursion was not planned.
In Which the AI Reviews Its Own Code (And Finds Real Bugs)
Adding Claude Code to GitLab CI for automated merge request reviews — what worked, what broke, and what the AI thought of its own code.
In Which We Give Our AI Agent a Map (And It Stops Getting Lost)
The Agents Meta-Repository Pattern for Multi-Repo Codebases