Thoughts
under
pressure
Every brass gauge is a thought I've published, and its needle shows how hard my brain was working on it. The pipes show how the thoughts connect. Move over the machine to stimulate it, and click a gauge to read.
Latest thoughts
Where is the value?
We keep saying the bottleneck has shifted. But faster was never the success. The value is in doing what you couldn't do before, and a lot of the people doing it never had a pipeline.
Should you leave auto mode on?
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code. It's a classifier, not a wall, and it's easy to leave on when your cloud, endpoint protection, MDM, connector permissions and the tool layer sit around it.
Would you query a database without an index?
I asked Claude Code to find one setting in a 50, 500 and 5,000 service repo, with and without grep and a CLAUDE.md. Grep never cost more than 4 cents. Without grep, the CLAUDE.md didn't stop the scan.
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