The book shelf
Thoughts on design, technology, free time, and a little philosophy.
#005 v5 LLM catch
LLMs write perfect plans, detailed specifications, and complete architectures. Nobody ever builds any of it.
engineeringllm
#004 v3 Asking is not enough
Most LLM workflows fail not because the model gets it wrong, but because nobody defined what right looks like before calling it.
engineeringllm
#003 v4 Prompts as pipelines
Prompt engineering is not the art of writing one better prompt — it is the discipline of breaking the work into phases that can fail independently.
engineeringllm
#002 v2 Boring software
The best software is the kind where nothing happens. Everything was planned, written, tested, and deployed — and it just works.
engineering
#001 v1 On simplicity
Simplicity is not the absence of complexity — it is the resolution of it.
design