The Other Intent
The business intent, what we're accomplishing, goes in the PR description. Solved problem; we've had a text box for it since forever.
Tagged context-engineering
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A Pipeline Is What It Refuses to Forward
The first stage of my code reviewer hands the next one a two-field object: a rule id and a citation. Not its reasoning. Not the file it just read. Two fields.
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The Raw Is the Trust Boundary
Ask a model to summarise a document and you can hold the result against the document — the raw is right there.
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The Agent Reaches for the Nearest Metaphor
I had a figure I liked. Writing about giving the AI the why instead of the what, I'd reached for a bespoke image — mine, a little odd, exactly the shape of…
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Augmented Reading
The reflex, when a model meets something long, is to make it shorter. Summarise the PR, TL;DR the paper, have the agent review the diff and hand back the…
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"Context Debt" Is a Strawman
Here's the pitch, and it's a good one. Vibe-coded slop is only the symptom; the disease underneath is context debt — the steady loss of what the code means…
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A Description Can't Replace the Code
A description is a compression, and it drops the omissions it doesn't know it made — the case not handled, the check not added.
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Your Codebase Is the Prompt
The AI reads from your codebase before it writes into it. Whatever's already there — your conventions, your shortcuts, your best work and your worst — is the…
