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You've Already Stopped Reading Your Permission Prompts
Anthropic's own telemetry shows people approve 93% of permission prompts — that's not caution, it's a reflex, and the fix is a policy you set before you're tired.
Your Agent's Attention Budget Is Already Spent
Context rot isn't a cliff a model falls off — it's a gradient, and the fix is curating what's in the window, not waiting for a collapse.
Autonomy Is a Dial, Not a Ladder
Chatbot, human-in-the-loop, agentic workflow, and full autonomy aren't stages you graduate through — they're positions you choose per task, and the vendors selling autonomy keep telling you not to default to it.
The AI Didn't Do It. One of Three Things Did.
Model, harness, and tools are three different jobs — and the coding agent's terminal access is why it can do things a chatbot never could.
A Spec Is Not a Plan
Research, Plan, Implement, Verify is just the ordinary shape of software work, finally said out loud — and the spec/plan mix-up inside it is costing teams more than they realize.
The Diff Is the Evidence
An agent can change forty files in ninety seconds and describe it in one confident sentence. That sentence is a claim, not a record — the diff is the only account of the work that nobody wrote.
DRY Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
Hunt and Thomas defined DRY as knowledge — not code. AI generates duplicated knowledge at industrial scale. The discipline hasn't changed; the surface area has.
MCPs Are Eating Your Context Window
MCP servers promised to make your AI agent infinitely capable. They also made it slower, fatter, and easier to compromise. CLIs are quietly winning.
Your AI Agent Is a Blender
Every part of Claude Code maps to a part of a blender. Once you see it, you'll immediately know why your output came out wrong — and who to blame.
The Most Useful Plugin You'll Write Is About Yourself
Building a Claude Code skill that encodes your own voice and engineering philosophy sounds like a neat AI trick. It turns out to be the most clarifying thing you can do with your expertise — because it forces you to name what you actually think.
The Roles Are Merging. Your Org Chart Hasn't Noticed Yet.
AI is collapsing the barriers between product, design, engineering, and DevOps. The teams that figure this out first will ship faster with fewer people — but only if taste and judgment come with the territory.
AI Writes Code. Creativity Writes Software.
When AI handles construction, the skill that matters isn't typing speed or syntax knowledge. It's taste.
Your AI Training Program Is Already Obsolete
By the time your team finishes an AI training program, the tools it covers have already been superseded. Here's what to do instead.
Hello, World. But Actually.
Why I started Imagile and what this blog is going to be.
AI in Your Product vs. AI in Your Toolbox
The distinction between integrating LLMs into applications and using GenAI to build applications faster — and why confusing the two costs you.