009 entries
001 2026.09.30
September 30, 2026
My vault had a 55-note prompt library. An audit of my own session transcripts found 5 prompts I'd re-typed enough to prove, 4 patterns worth promoting to skills, 2 skills worth demoting back to prompts, and about 40 imported templates I had never used once.
002 2026.08.12
August 12, 2026
AI can write a flawless tutorial, but it cannot fake a dead end. Witnessed practice—real work through uncertainty—is the DevRel format models cannot replicate.
003 2026.08.05
August 5, 2026
AI handles much of developer education. The remaining work—judgment, architecture calls, tradeoffs, and product edges—is what DevRel must own.
004 2026.07.29
July 29, 2026
A re-audit of Stripe, Clerk, and Neon shows the best developer-tool docs now reach five of six AEO layers. That clarifies who owns AI-readable infrastructure.
005 2026.07.09
July 9, 2026
Durable AI workflows are found through iterative rebuilding, not upfront design. The framework emergence loop turns each failure into the next version's lesson.
006 2026.05.18
May 18, 2026
AI-assisted builds stall when the specification leaves decisions undefined. The specification boundary is the missing territory you must plan before the model can finish.
007 2026.05.11
May 11, 2026
The reason AI-assisted builds stall isn't the model: design decisions were never made. Here's why writing the spec first changes everything.
008 2026.05.04
May 4, 2026
An LLM context file is a maintained deliverable, not a config toggle. It tells an agent what the project is, what decisions stand, and how to navigate it.
009 2026.04.27
April 27, 2026
The AX shift means designing docs, context files, and specs for agents. UX serves users; DX serves engineers; AX serves the agent as primary reader.
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