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How We Review Code When Agents Write Most of It
In June we merged 16 pull requests into our own website. In the first 18 days of October we merged 167. Nobody reads that many diffs line by line. Here is how we review code now, and where a person still decides.
Terrance MacGregor
What Matters When You Build a Machine for Local LLMs
Five hardware factors, ranked. Capacity decides whether it runs at all. Bandwidth decides how fast it feels.
Terrance MacGregor
Let the AI Read. Don't Let It Decide.
Defensible AI, not just accurate AI: why, in high-stakes domains, the model should read the evidence but never make the call.
Declan McGarry
Fidelity is up and obedience is down!
As a developer, you will be silently fired if you execute on user stories exactly as written. It won't be on purpose and it will happen slowly over time. This is called "ticket obedience" and it is no longer rewarded in the age of AI.
USB cables look the same. They are not.
Most of what matters on a USB cable is invisible. We organized the mess into a simple reference at usb.periscoped.io.
Terrance MacGregor