WRITING · 3 POSTS
Notes from the build.
What building agent pipelines and the gates around them taught me, written down with the numbers I could actually find. Every claim is checked against a primary source before it goes in.
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Two studies, opposite answers, and why both are right
One controlled trial found AI made developers 55.8% faster. Another found experienced developers 19% slower, while they believed they'd been sped up by 20%. The studies don't contradict each other, and the reason they don't is the useful part.
- llm-evaluation
- developer-productivity
- measurement
Most Git tutorials teach you commands. After writing 80 pages of Git documentation, these are the ten ideas I'd keep if I had to throw the rest away.
- git
- engineering-practice
- developer-tools
I designed two multi-agent systems to be cheap by construction, bounded batches, tiered model routing, grounding over cleverness. Then I went looking for what they actually cost, and found I had never recorded a single number. Here's what I found instead, and why it was the more interesting answer.
- llm-cost
- agents
- evaluation