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AI in the day-to-day work of building software. The useful parts, the expensive parts, and the decisions in between.

  • 7 min read

    GPT-6 Astra and the employee handbook from hell

    About 1.5 million characters of prompts and tool definitions appeared online. I went through the files. The permission guidance is funny, the tool documentation mostly makes sense, and somebody has to maintain all of this.

    • AI agents
    • Codex
    • Prompt engineering
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  • 13 min read

    Monorepo vs. multiple repos: the AI review tax

    A small change, long Jira ticket, and an AI reviewer that keeps reading. Where the tokens go, why more context makes the review worse rather than better, and why I would give independent services their own repos.

    • AI code review
    • GitHub Actions
    • Architecture
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    One service. One review scope.A dedicated checkout repository supplies the changed code, contracts, and tests for its own AI review.Checkout reposrc/tests/contracts/README.md.github/AI reviewPR diffContractsTests + ticket
    One service. One review scope.