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Thoughts
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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.

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BLDNo. 026

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.

IDANo. 025

How to get past watching tokens

For the first time, our work itself costs money. Stop watching the meter: give a problem $150 in tokens, aim it at what makes the work slow, and scale up when it pays.

BLDNo. 024

Does a skill turn Sonnet into Opus?

I built a coding job full of traps to see if a skill could lift a cheaper model to Opus. Every model got every check right, and that's the finding.

Anatomy of the machine

Four lobes

  1. Chamber IRNTRantsThings that made me hopping mad.03 thoughts →
  2. Chamber IIBLDBuildsStuff I made, and how.07 thoughts →
  3. Chamber IIIIDAIdeasHalf-formed. Possibly brilliant.14 thoughts →
  4. Chamber IVMEMMemoryLessons I paid for.02 thoughts →
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