Two Bars, Spreading Apart

This is the first of a few essays I’m writing as a freshly minted builder, building new things in the greenfield rather than playing corporate leadership roles in the brownfield. This means I get to view AI from an entirely different perspective, and what I’m learning is refreshingly challenging. Over the past four weeks, I’ve spent more than 50% of my time reviewing, probing, and arguing with my coding harness about product and technical strategy, choices, and decisions. The rest of my time goes to letting my harness work on its own. My PRs are large, and I don’t mind as long as the changes conform to my overall specification. The system I’m building is large and has multiple moving parts. I’ve built skills across most aspects of the product development lifecycle. I’ve written adversarial agents to test claims. I’ve also taught my agents to write comprehensible English (simple words, one idea per sentence, short paragraphs, no dramatic phrases, etc.). The amount of Markdown in my…