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Your Default Model Is a Budget Decision You Never Made
Four fixed assignments, every current model, every effort setting, three attempts each — and the grades barely move while the bill moves by a factor of four hundred.
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.
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.
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.
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.