Quality at machine speed: ~70,000 tests, static analysis, and the review bias nobody warns you about
Quality at machine speed: ~70,000 tests, static analysis, and the review bias nobody warns you about
Conference
Where the three-tier stack was overkill: an honest retrospective
Not a victory lap the opposite. Where the stack was overkill, where the hand-off cost more than it saved, and the one-question filter I now run before I stand up the architect tier at all.
The RPIQ loop: where the architect tier actually sits
That methodology is the loop I've been running long before any of these models existed: Research → Plan → Implement → Quality. RPIQ. This post maps the stack onto it — and shows why the mapping, not the model, is the thing worth keeping.
Orchestration Part3: Why I took the architect tier out of my delivery work on purpose
I pay for less AI than I could afford. On purpose. Two months ago I dropped the top tier from my subscription — the architect tier, the one with Opus Max in it. Not because it wasn't good. Because it was too good at being reached for.
CAST part3: Building the team: from 17 role-based agents to task-based Agent Teams
Somewhere in Phase 4 of this build, my job changed. I stopped prompting an assistant and started managing a team — one you can't see, that never sleeps, and that will confidently agree with itself right off a cliff if you let it.
CAST Part2: Four phases, four walls: how I built a production app with zero iOS experience
I'll start with the part I didn't think I'd get to write so soon: as of today, BowSmith is live on the App Store. Zero iOS experience when I started. A real, shippable archery app today.
Orchestration part 2: Show, don't tell: watching one request fall through the orchestration stack
Everyone wants to argue about which model is best. It's the wrong argument. The interesting question isn't "which model" — it's "what happens at the seams between them." So instead of telling you how the three-tier stack works, I'm going to show you. One real request, followed the whole way down.
