How You Do Something Matters
A horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent.
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Engineering, craft, and curiosity.
Self-taught engineer, recovering history major. Tech, woodworking, home automation.
A horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent.
Everyone's asking if you should still learn to code. It's the wrong question. The job was never typing syntax. It was solving problems, and that hasn't changed.
A habit I've had for years and never had a word for: finding the one thing worth learning from almost everyone I work with.
AI security agents like CodeMender and Claude Mythos are backstops. The real work is the in-flow layer of gates in front of them, and vendors are shipping it.
Alibaba's Qwen is dominating OpenRouter token charts. But moving a bootstrapped startup from Gemini to Qwen revealed the hidden price of open models: developer time.