Evaluation and engineering taste
Evals, TDD, verification, taste, and the parts of software instinct that break around stochastic systems.
Agency = Mandate × Harness × Taste: A Method, Not a Mood
When coding gets cheap, the advice "be more ambitious, have more agency" starts showing up everywhere. It's a mood, not a method. Here's the method. The...
Implementation Is Cheap Now — Taste Is the New Bottleneck
The honest one-sentence version Let's start with the version of the claim that survives contact with a real codebase: AI didn't make implementation cheap....
Why Your Software Engineering Instincts Break AI Evals
If your AI evals keep failing, the cause is probably not your prompt or your model. It's that you're writing them like a software engineer, and that...
Does TDD Still Matter With AI Coding Agents? Yes — But Not How You Think
The short answer Test-driven development is more useful in the age of AI coding agents than it was before. But almost everyone gives the wrong reason. The...
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