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It Doesn't Forget, and That's the Problem: Why Your Chat History Isn't a Handoff
A long design session goes bad in a specific way, and it is not that the agent forgets. It remembers everything you said, including every idea you abandoned, at full weight. The fix is the same one engineering already uses for people: write down what survived, and hand over the document instead of the conversation.
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AI Is a Brilliant Developer With No Discipline: Why Managing Agents Is Managing Engineers
Updated:I spent months writing prompts, rejecting what came back, and rewriting it myself. The problem was never the model. It was that I was prompting a tool instead of managing a developer, and engineering already knows how to manage a fast, talented, undisciplined developer.
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State Is a Fold Over Events: Functional State in React and Beyond
Your state is the residue of setter calls nobody recorded, which is why the bug won't reproduce. Name what happened as events, let one pure function fold them into state, and every screen your app has ever shown is one replay away.
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Effects Are Values: Functional Core, Imperative Shell
Your business rules can't be tested because they're welded to fetches, toasts, and analytics calls. Split the program in two: a pure core that decides what should happen and returns it as plain data, and a thin shell that performs it. The mock count drops to zero.