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Notes on agentic coding, distributed systems, and running engineering teams.

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2026

Oct 19 · agents · 16 min
When Not to Use RAG: Log Your Misses First

Most empty searches in my agent's memory were plumbing, not meaning. When not to use RAG: a week of logs, and bge-m3 against an LLM judge.
Oct 17 · claude-code · 7 min
A Claude Code Mod So I Never Miss My Agent's Questions

A Claude Code mod that keeps your agent's open questions above the prompt: about 250 lines, written by Claude itself, and how to build your own.
May 26 · claude-code · 19 min
Claude Code Hooks: The Deterministic Layer You're Not Using Yet

Claude Code hooks guide: all 33 lifecycle events, exit code 2 blocking, PreToolUse examples, the stop_hook_active trap, and the patterns worth shipping.
Apr 26 · claude-code · 15 min
Claude Code SKILL.md Frontmatter: Every Field Explained

Claude Code SKILL.md frontmatter reference: all 20 fields, the context: fork and agent pair, body templating, and the bugs you'll hit in practice.
Apr 3 · claude-code · 9 min
ForgeCode vs Claude Code: What Happened to the 81.8% Benchmark

ForgeCode vs Claude Code: how ForgeCode's 81.8% Terminal-Bench score got rescored, where both agents stand on Terminal-Bench 4.0, and which CLI to pick now.
Apr 2 · claude-code · 10 min
Claude Code Source Leak: What It Revealed and What Shipped Since

The Claude Code source leak, six months on: what the 2.1.88 source map exposed, which hidden features shipped, which died, and how the agent really works.

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