The Default Is the Tell
Paul Graham ignores emails that he calls AI-written in hard-hitting journalistic style. A polished register no founder has ever written in.
Author: Martin Treiber
The Lead That Couldn’t Step Down
What happened when five Claude Code instances were given a constitution, a parliament, and a goal — and built a coordinator.
Govern the Spender, Not the Spend
AI cost is turning out to be a control problem, not a pricing problem — and the only place to fix it is the gateway.
Who’s Writing the Context Window?
The three-layer diagram everyone's drawing hides whether a human or a program is assembling the context, and when.
No Orchestration Required: How Parallel Coding Agents Coordinate Through a Shared Log
The industry is selling orchestration frameworks for a problem that, on one machine, a SQLite file and three hooks already solve.
Converge, Not Fork
What happened when eight Claude Code instances shared one repository, one git index, and no manager — and spent an afternoon building.
A Rewritable File Should Know What It Is
Rewritable began with one universal editing metaphor: the lens. Use it to describe the change, and the model rewrites the file.
Your Skill File Now Has a Backward Pass
Researchers at Microsoft published the first systematic text-space optimiser for agent skill files last week.
What Free Software Promised, Prompts Deliver — of All Things
Free software is about the right to modify the software you use, given source access. Few users could ever exercise that right.
When Software Updates Arrive as Instructions
When software updates arrive as prompts, the signature authenticates the instruction — not the program the local LLM produces from it.