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All the Roads Not Taken
On Cognitive Debt, Intent Debt, and the Brakes That Let the Car Go Faster
Apr 28 • Russ Miles
The Trellis and the Hill
On momentum, memory, and the quiet debts we plant in our software engineering gardens
Apr 25 • Russ Miles
Looping Reflections
On turning agent surprises into harness evolution
Apr 23 • Russ Miles
The Debts That Grow in Silence
AI accelerates not just code but the fragile ecology of understanding and intent
Apr 22 • Russ Miles
The Djinn's Determinacy Drift
On the calibration of determinacy in agentic harnesses
Apr 20 • Russ Miles
Remembering the Joy in Building Again
A story of loss, survival, and the return of joy through code, care, and a conversation with the Djinn
Apr 18 • Russ Miles
The Word That Passed Every Audit
On the governance of meaning, and the debt that accumulates when words survive longer than what they meant
Apr 17 • Russ Miles
A Platform is a Place more than a Product
Or why you could build the perfect thing, but miss what will make people love it
Apr 16 • Russ Miles
The Twentieth Watt
On the depletable collaborator, and the reservoir that empties while you think it works
Apr 13 • Russ Miles
The Art of Being Grounded
What emerges when you stop imposing explanations and start observing the habitat you are already part of
Apr 12 • Russ Miles
In the Beginning Was The … Prompt
On AI Literacy for Software Engineering and the changing relationship between the engineer and the interface, from punch cards to AI inhabited habitats
Apr 7 • Russ Miles
The Habitat You Build Is the Intelligence You Get
An introduction to AI Literacy for Software Engineers
Apr 3 • Russ Miles
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