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Stories about the technology and people building understandable software.
Building from First PrinciplesBuilding a Coding AgentA coding agent's capability depends more on how its harness connects tools, context, and evaluation than on the model label alone.
Engineering articleHow to Whittle a SkillAgent skills improve through repeatable judgment rules and failure-case evaluation, not through prompt-polishing intuition.
Building from First PrinciplesBuilding a Small Language ModelTraining a small language model explains Transformer mechanics without proving that we understand the capabilities of modern LLMs.
Engineering articleIf You're Struggling with Claude BlueCoding agents create less anxiety when treated as controllable harnesses rather than mysterious model intelligence.All articles loaded