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Your Dev Environment Should Also Not Be Overcomplicated
And most devs talking about their AI Coding Agent setups are wildly overcomplicated.
Jan 6
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Meta-Modernism, from the word itself
most everything I've read out there is bollocks
Nov 14, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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In the Long Run, I Hope One of Keyne's Memes Would Die
There is a specific type of smugness that appears at dinner parties when the conversation turns to the future.
Nov 12, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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The Sticky Starter Shadow: How Reputation Becomes Reality in a Consensus Culture
And how any attempt to change will *also* be graded by that consensus will just further cement you.
Nov 3, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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The Accidental Semiotics Shuffle
Unavoidable problem of using loaded human terms as shorthand for AI mechanics, creating a semantic trap where narrow tech definitions are later mistaken…
Oct 30, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus"
Consensus cultures, paralyzed by the complexity of agreeing on nuanced trade-offs, often default to single, easily-gamed metrics, making them uniquely…
Oct 30, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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Agents: Librarians or Butlers?
We call them both agents but they are very different.
Sep 30, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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To Do, To Be, and/or To Understand
pick two?
Sep 4, 2025
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Ben Mathes
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