Notes from the workbench.
Thinking out loud about PHP, AI tooling, ABA software, indie hacking, and whatever else I'm shipping this month.
A Floor, Not a Ceiling: Why My Agent Skills Use Everything Claude Code Offers
Most of my agent skills started as Matt Pocock's. His are written to run the same in every harness. Mine still run anywhere, but where Claude Code has a better tool for the job, they use it. Here's what that changes when you're the one sitting at the keyboard.
Six Rounds of Bot Review on One PR
An agent built a whole feature in one session: interview, spec, design, code, tests, a live click-through. It passed its own review. Then the review bots found 32 real bugs, one round at a time. Asking their questions before the PR is the fix.
When 'Always' Means Always: The Implied Clause in Your Agent Rules
I told my agent to ALWAYS add --tia to Pest. It did — by running the whole suite after every single step. A human hears an implied 'when you run Pest.' The agent doesn't. Here's the lesson.
I Went on Vacation and My Agents Paid Down My Tech Debt
I took a week off and let Superconductor loose on a 500k-line Laravel codebase. It opened roughly two dozen PRs a day: N+1 fixes, unbounded job processing, missing HTTP timeouts, tenant-scoping bugs. I merged 98% of them. This is the setup that made that safe.
Apollo 11 Mission on Technical Debt
In the Apollo 11 source code, published online in 2009, a programmer wrote: 'TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE.' Technical debt has been a part of software for as long as software has existed.