The harness gap
For about two months I have been bending Claude Code to work the way I work, and recently I wanted to know whether any of it was helping. So I did what you do:…
Essays
Ideas straight from my head, written with the help of AI, because, obviously.
"Continue" is a complete prompt
A post went past me on LinkedIn this week sorting people who work with GenAI tools into two camps. Camp one is spec driven, usually engineers: write the spec…
Automating the slack
Write down the three problems that, if they moved, would change what your organisation is worth. Then write down everything anyone in the building has pointed…
Tool-shaped goals
Salesforce engineers have a widget on their Macs that refreshes every fifteen minutes with the amount of money they have spent on AI tools. The Pragmatic…
Why you still read everything your agent writes
There's an agent running inside my business that watches HubSpot for companies I move to Developing. When one appears, it researches the company, sweeps my own…
Nobody demos a text file
The diagram I keep almost drawing has five boxes in it. A researcher agent, a writer, an editor, a QA pass, and an orchestrator sitting above them holding the…