Replace the Trivial, Augment the Difficult
A rule in the code-review engine I built caught an idiom I've been writing for years and can no longer see. That's the small half.
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How a Team's AI Coding Flow Should Be Wired
A change lands in review with everything green. The rules pass, the types check, the tests are close to the ones I'd have asked for.
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The Agent Will Invent the Bar
One evening an agent working in this repo killed an idea of mine for failing a rule. The kill was well argued and it cited the rule by line number, the way…
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Fluent in a Dead Idiom
A newer engineer left a note on my pull request: this array should be readonly. He was right.
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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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The Nit Was Never Optional
Read that definition again. It's one of the most widely-cited code-review standards telling reviewers how to flag a small issue: say the author should fix it…
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Teaching the Reviewer
I was building a code-review tool. Nothing fancy — read the diff, flag what's wrong, the job I do by hand a dozen times a week.
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Thinking at the Speed of Code
A while back, I stopped reading the AI's end-of-task summaries and started watching the diffs. They came through faster than I could have typed them.
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Give Away the Writing, Keep the Reading
Linus Torvalds vibe-coded the visualizer and hand-wrote the audio math. One repository, the whole argument — writing code was never the scarce skill.
