Tagged: engineering

• Apr 1, 2026 Post

  I built a tech debt simulation. At 10x coding speed, feature output approaches zero.

  Defect rate per line rises with codebase size. At 10x speed you hit the sprint where rework consumes more capacity than new work. I built a model to find that sprint and ran it through four scenarios.

• Mar 31, 2026 Post

  Pretext is a text measurement library. The most interesting use cases have no DOM at all.

  Pretext measures text 300x faster than the browser by replacing layout reflows with arithmetic. Cursor already shipped it. The use cases that matter most are in 3D, on servers, and in CI.

• Mar 30, 2026 Post

  AI agents keep failing. The fix is 40 years old.

  AI agents fail in production because of mutable state, hidden dependencies, and side effects the agent can't see. The fix is functional programming. SUPER and SPIRALS are the frameworks I use.