The Machinist and the Program
NC machining didn't just automate cutting. It relocated the knowledge upstream. Something similar is happening to programming.
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#methodology
#devlog
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Figuring out LLM-assisted engineering in public.
The Holy Grail Has a Bug
Natural language interfaces were the great unlock of human-computer interaction. At the specification layer, they're the problem.
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#methodology
#context-engineering
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The Boundary Held
3.5 months of engine/game architecture work. The proof was whether the repo split compiled.
#architecture
#methodology
#devlog
Memory Existed; Behavior Didn't Change
The LLM wrote five notes to itself about exactly what it needed to do. Then it didn't do it.
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#methodology
#postmortem
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I Did Not Learn How to Make LLMs Write More Code
Six months into LLM-assisted software engineering, the main lesson isn't about output volume. It's about what happens when you don't control the process.
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#methodology
#retrospective
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