The Human Is the Outer Loop
A factory, underneath the word, is a loop. The agentic software factory, the version being built right now, puts the models inside that loop.
Category: Development
No Mac Mini Required: The Complete Guide to Safely Hosting AI Agents on Your Current Mac or PC
Professionals buying dedicated Mac minis to act as silent, 24/7 personal servers for their local AI agents. You don't have to.
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.
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.
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.
The Kanban board is the file: lightweight coordination for parallel Claude Code
A Kanban board tells you is what's about to happen, what another agent is doing right now, or which card is yours to pick up.
Building a development diary for Claude Code
Commit messages tell you what changed, but don't tell you what was tried first, what broke, or where the work pivoted. A diary does.