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Coding agents write most of my code. They don't decide what ships.
Agent-written code can look finished long before it is safe to merge. This is the evidence system every change must pass before it reaches main.
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Notes from building products and the systems behind them. Architecture, measured results, and failed experiments all belong here.
Engineering7 min read
I asked an AI reviewer to stop when the code was clean. It ran for 46 hours.
An experimental review workflow ran 39 passes, wrote most of its own defects, changed live repository settings, and still could not finish.
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My review-fix workflow found 15 material issues. CodeRabbit found none.
I ran review-fix and CodeRabbit over the same two changes. Fourteen defects were repaired, one real risk was accepted, and CodeRabbit's only comment was a false positive.
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How this portfolio is built
The design system behind this site, and why the MDX content pipeline got replaced by plain TSX modules and a type checker.
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Why I abandoned HEX and HSL for OKLCH in Tailwind v4
HSL lightness lies about brightness, and HEX cannot name what modern screens can show. How this site moved its whole design system to OKLCH.
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From 5s to 0s: solving the cold boot problem
How a school website went from a five-second cold start to instant responses, and cut its infrastructure cost by 60 percent on the way.
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