Long-form posts. AI-augmented engineering, vault automation, the operator's view.
The muscle that ships a company from zero is not the muscle that keeps a company aimed. I have shifted between modes more than once. Each time, the habits that worked before were the habits I had to break first.
I stopped giving my AI assistants rules and started giving them reading material. The shift is from instruction to artifact. The em-dash regex is the catchy part. Loading files as books-the-system-reads is the durable one.
I built a parallel-agent workflow to make candidate background research faster. It made the research deeper instead -- because running ten investigations at once turns a noisy classifier into a confident one. The speedup was the bonus.