A Flip Is a Missing Rule
A colleague sent me the cleanest bug report I've had all year. He'd taken an open change, squashed it, and opened it again — same content, byte for byte, as…
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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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Nobody Broke It
It looks at a deprecation deadline declared in a schema, calls new Date(), compares, and if the deadline has passed it fails.
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Build the Operator, Keep the Operands as Data
A good rule set grows. Mine has grown — tested against a whole corpus of real PRs and code — into something too big to hand a model all at once, and that's…
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Train on What the Gate Throws Away
My code reviewer does far more work than it ships. Scouts cast a wide net — anything that might be a violation.
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A Big Rule Set Is an Attention Problem
Sixteen minutes and sixteen dollars to surface four low-severity nits, most of it spent scanning for rules rather than judging code.
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Rules Are the Alpha
Two reviewers, the same commit — a fat change, a few thousand lines. One was a deep reviewer I own, running a portfolio of judgment rules tested across a…
