Writing
Notes on working with agents
5 pieces, grouped by subject rather than by date. Some of them reference lessons from the class. Read them in any order.
Context
What to put in the window, what to keep out, and why it degrades.
Verification
Proving the work is right without reading every line of it.
Tooling
Skills, subagents, MCP, and the parts worth building yourself.
cmux: five agents, one terminalStarting five sessions costs one command each. Finding the one that is blocked costs you the afternoon, and more panes on screen make that worse.Tooling
Ghostty: the terminal has to come to youAn agent runs for eight minutes and you get up. The window you left it in is three desktops away, behind a browser, and you find it by clicking.Tooling
A checkout eachTwo agents, one working tree, and a stash you did not ask for. The second agent did nothing wrong. It just started.Tooling
Longer read
My AI engineering journey
Ten stages, from typing every character myself to pipelines that open their own sessions. Each one ended by the wall that forced the next.
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