007 entries
001 2026.07.29
July 29, 2026
I audited Stripe, Clerk, and Neon's docs in May 2026 for whether AI assistants can find and cite them, and found the best sites in developer tools were only two layers into a six-layer AEO stack. A re-audit in August 2026 found them at roughly five of six. Updated with what changed, and what it says about who owns the work.
002 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.
003 2026.06.18
June 18, 2026
A broken agentic workflow fails loudly. The wrong one runs cleanly and quietly drifts. How to define correctness and evaluate against it before you ship.
004 2026.05.18
May 18, 2026
AI gets you to 75% fast, then stalls. The wall isn't the model's capability, it's the specification boundary: the territory your spec left undefined. Here's how to plan for it.
005 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.
006 2026.05.04
May 4, 2026
An LLM context file like CLAUDE.md is a deliverable, not a config toggle. Configuration tells tools how to behave; a context file tells the agent what the project is, what's been decided, and what it needs to navigate the work. The first kind sets and forgets. The second has to be maintained.
007 2026.04.27
April 27, 2026
The AX Shift is the move from designing software interfaces, documentation, and project context for humans to designing them for the agents now reading them. UX redesigned interfaces around users; DX redesigned APIs around the engineers consuming them; AX redesigns docs, context files, and specs around the autonomous agent that's now the primary reader.
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