What I meant to say
2026.265Arcanist made intent first-class. Claude Code moved it to the prompt. The developer went from author to auditor - and nothing enforces what I meant to say.
Tooling
tag:
tooling
all tags →2026
set -e ate the report
2026.213Under set -e a failing check exits before the line that reports it. Thirty of the forty-four in my quality gate can never print FAIL.
The model is the stale one
2026.162I pointed two frontier models at my own docs to see which one to pay for. Both flagged the correct, freshly-updated pages as stale -- the audit was poisoned by the thing being audited.
The mechanism is the enforcement
2026.158Three AI code-review tools sit on the same model. The one that guarantees coverage did it with a for-loop, not a better prompt.
The archive reads back
2026.111An LLM in the middle of a fetch pipeline took orders from the file it was summarizing.
The margins
2026.090190 spinner verbs. A thinking indicator nobody specced. Reading Claude Code's source -- and what engineering taste looks like when nobody's watching.