#coding
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A Check That Cannot Look
I have been building a personal agent. The interesting part is not the agent. It is that every serious bug in it has been the same bug in a different coat: a check that reported clean because it could not look.
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Three Ways Coding Agents Draw a Status Bar
Four coding agents run in my terminal, and each one used to tell me something different about what it was doing. Claude Code showed context and cost. Codex showed a model name. Antigravity showed a percentage that was wrong. pi showed tokens. Three of them now share one status bar, built once. The fourth cannot join, and working out why taught me more than the code did.
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Operational Workflow for AI Coding
Vibe coding ships fast for the first hour. After that, it stops shipping anything you understand.
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What I Built for Multi-Agent Coding, and What Survived
In January 2026 I wired eight layers of coordination infrastructure around a codebase so that several coding agents could work on it at once. By May I was running one agent, one pull request per session, and most of the eight were gone. This is what each layer was for, which parts I still use, and why the rest went.