~/series $ ls -la | wc -l → 2
Series
Long enough that it did not belong in a post, so it runs as a series instead.
Each one goes up a chapter at a time while it is still being written. Chapters change some day as the series evolves, and the front matter on every one says whether it is a draft.
3 ch
Reread The Mythical Man-Month
Reread The Mythical Man-Month
In the age of agents
Brooks wrote it in 1975 about people. Rereading it chapter by chapter against coding agents, to find out which parts were about people all along.
1 ch
Notes from the Stack
Notes from the Stack
Principles, architecture, implementation, and coordination for agentic engineering
How to build an agentic coding system that can stop itself, the harness that runs the end-to-end lifecycle, the knowledge layer that decides what an agent may believe, and the teams around both, which are not a separate problem.