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May be more clear to refer to it as Foam Banana Candy syndrome

In my view, the problem with specs are: 1. Specs are subject to bit-rot, there's no impetus to update them as behaviour changes - unless your agent workflow explicitly enforces a t…

In my view, Spec-Driven systems are doomed to fail. There's nothing that couples the english language specs you've written with the actual code and behaviour of the system - unless…

Actually, every single word was hand typed. You'll probably notice that in areas where I could improve my grammar. It's understandable that you hit the wall of text and felt a bit …

That's the kicker - you taught it conventions that it follows. Even better (in my view) is to ensure you're getting higher coverage and tests focused on behaviour by getting it to …

Even better, encode it into a workflow and have the subagents be adversarial to each other: https://www.joegaebel.com/articles/principled-agentic-softwa...

You'd be surprised - I know I was - you can encode Test-Driven development into workflows that agents actually follow. I wrote an in-depth guide about this and have a POC for peopl…

I've found the best way to achieve that is to force the agent to do TDD. Better to get it to do Outside-in TDD. Even better to get it to run Outside-in TDD, then use mutation testi…

Encoding software engineering principles like Outside-in TDD to achieve higher quality tests and implementation.

I've been able to encode Outside-in Test Driven Development into a repeatable workflow. Claude Code follows it to a T, and I've gotten great results. I've written about it more her…

back up your data, cloud storage is ephemeral

Nicer way to go about this is `ts-results` which introduces the `Result` type, inspired by rust. https://github.com/vultix/ts-results

I've never seen a more perfect example of non-ironic American exceptionalism

I'm surprised to see the lack of support in the comments. In my take, this article was very well written and goes a long way to describe the refreshing and enlivening aftermath of …

If you're in Australia, check out https://www.climatesalad.com/jobs-in-climate-tech-australia I'm sure something like this exists in the US as well.

Wow, amazing. I had no idea it was so prevalent. Thanks for writing this up!

Great to see you at the top of HN today tectonic! I'm at Pivotal in Sydney Australia now. Thanks again for the impromptu interview all of those years ago!

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