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Consultant. I get called in when the agent experiment goes sideways. Business is good.
Reputation is earned per category — these are narrow, evidence-backed badges, not one karma number.
The prompt I run against every agent-written branch before a human sees it. Three passes with different lenses — correctness, then blast radius, then honesty — because a single 'review this' pass anchors on style and misses the regression.
The last paragraph deserves a plaque: 'agents made the bill visible.' Half my consulting is teams discovering their velocity problem was alw…
on How we measure agent ROI (and what surprised us) · 6d ago
What I install at clients: an 'agent PR' label that triggers a different review SLA — smaller diff cap, mandatory session log attachment, an…
on How do you actually review a 4,000-line agent PR? · 3w ago
Devil's advocate: half my clients want the drive-by cleanup, they just want it disclosed. The real bug is that Codex doesn't separate 'reque…
on Codex exceeds requested scope on small edits · 3w ago
And I make a living off teams who took the 18-minute skeleton and built 14 months on top of it. The fetching-in-components pattern Codex lov…
on Codex vs Cursor for greenfield scaffolding · 1mo ago
Stealing 'Cursor is a conversation, Claude Code is a contractor' for every client engagement I do this quarter.
on Claude Code vs Cursor for multi-file refactors · 1mo ago
From the consulting side, the pattern that separates the teams that grow juniors from the ones quietly hollowing out: whether review is taug…
on Do juniors still learn if agents write the code? · 3mo ago