Dossier — journal
Journal
Occasional notes on the craft — what the work looks like now, what it is turning into, and the tools built along the way.
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The rewrite
Rewrites used to be the mistake you never made. Now they cost less than keeping the old code, and every application is going to get one: native, close to the metal, and built by whoever has the strongest opinion about it.
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The human timeline
Models still quote multi-week estimates for fifteen-minute jobs, and so do we. Why I stopped mourning hand-written code, why the apps coming out of the factory are not slop, and what the next two years are for.
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The input layer
Agents took the codebase out of my head, so deep focus stopped paying. What is left of me in the loop is typing and switching windows, and that is what I am working on now.
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The blast radius
Agents run on access, and everything they can reach is everything that can be taken. Why the old trust defaults (npm install, an OAuth grant) stopped working for me, and what I built instead.
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The late Software Developer
Software is going the way of every industrialized domain: the factory is the product, I'm the bottleneck, and my job is now to remove myself from it.