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2026-06-12 - 10 min read

The model said done. The app was broken. Both things were true.

A five-rung verification ladder for non-engineers, anchored to Anthropic's own admission that Claude stops when the work looks done.

2026-06-05 - 11 min read

I read 64 CLAUDE.md files. The most useful section was missing from all of them.

A field guide to writing a CLAUDE.md as a non-engineer, anchored to 64 real CLAUDE.md files from public GitHub repos and the four sections engineers leave out.

2026-06-01 - 10 min read

ServiceTitan said it isn't built for small shops. The small shops heard them.

Real costs in a small contractor's software stack, the parts of it owners actually use, and what one weekend with a coding agent looks like in 2026.

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