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Muckin' Around

Muckin’ Around: An AI Manifesto

Why start a blog in 2026 anyway...

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Jan 28
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The Deletion Test

Here’s a simple test you can apply to any software system you work on:

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Jan 23
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Provenance Is the New Version Control

When code can be thrown away and recreated, the unit of change is no longer lines of code. It’s reasons. Version control has to follow.

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Jan 12
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The System Is the Asset

Why Regeneration Does Not Mean Starting Over

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Jan 5
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Conceptual Mass and the Compaction Discipline

As I mentioned in a previous post, at Wunderlist, we had a rule: any new service had to be "this big", a constraint I'd demonstrate by holding my fingers a few inches apart. The metric wasn't about lines of code. It was about replaceability.

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Jan 2
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Evaluations Are the Real Codebase

Why behavior outlives implementations

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Dec 29 '25
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