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Our Grades Fell While the Code Got Better
Five scored code reviews trended downward while each one triggered a real remediation wave. The score was measuring the reviewer, not the code.
Five Words and the Edit Nobody Authorized
A request to review one section of a customer reply came back as an unbriefed critique and an unauthorized edit. The fix was an output contract, not a reminder.
Template Gives You Consistency, Not Credibility
Per-vertical content a practitioner respects cannot be stamped from one template. Depth at altitude takes serial authoring through an adversarial critique loop.
Ground It or Flag It: Ending Agent Confabulation
The agent failure to fix is not guessing - it is confident, unmarked inference dressed as fact. The cure separates disclosure from verification.
Building a Product's Entire UI in a Two-Day Parallel Agent Sweep
A client portal and an admin console, built in two days by agents working in parallel, each owning one surface, on a shared dual-mode abstraction.
Plan-declared workstreams: every plan ships its own execution topology
Replacing ad-hoc agent coordination with a fenced YAML execution-mode block at the bottom of every approved plan. One gate, plan-internal parallelism.
Validating pattern-matchers against a real corpus, not your imagination
Our v1 reflex hook had zero corpus recall. v2 was corpus-driven from the start. Mine real transcripts before shipping pattern-matching code.