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software-engineering · August 30, 2026 · 11 min read

Five Things I Refused This Week

A ranked cheat-sheet of five desk rules from this week: who pins the model, what .gitignore does not lock, who merges, who retries, and who still reads the diff.

ai-agents · Aug 29 · 13 min

I Do Not Let a Coding Agent Pick Its Own Model

The agent that writes the diff does not choose the model for that pull request. A named human pins the model before the session starts. Auto is a vendor default, not an owner.

developer-tools · Aug 28 · 12 min

I Do Not Give a Coding Agent Merge Rights

A coding agent may open the pull request. A named human still owns the merge click. Treat GitHub agent merge and auto-merge as opt-in shortcuts, never as the default.

frontend-engineering · Aug 27 · 13 min

I Do Not Add a Second Chart Stack Mid-Sprint

A green chart lockfile is not permission to add ECharts beside ApexCharts. Name a rollback owner and one failing chart fixture before anyone ships a second visualization stack.

tutorials · Aug 26 · 13 min

Empty Tool Output Is Not Success Until the Harness Says Interrupted

An interrupted MCP tool in a headless coding-agent session used to look finished. Treat empty completion as a bug until the harness asserts an interrupted error.

ai-agents · Aug 21 · 11 min

Your Coding Agent Needs a Map, Not a Bigger Context Window — Part 2

A bigger context window still lets a coding agent search the whole tree. Put the map file on the ticket as an allow-list, fail out-of-map paths, and name who updates the list.

dev-ecosystem · Aug 16 · 13 min

Hermes Agent Multi-Agent Orchestration: How Cron Pipelines Delegate, Verify, and Recover

Multi-agent Hermes setups fail when specialists work unsupervised. Gates, checkpoints, and a coordinator that verifies artifacts before publishing.

tutorials · Aug 14 · 10 min

Building a Background Agent Recovery CLI: The Three-Gate Check

Chat said done is not recovered. I wait for a file on disk, a job log that names why the run stopped, and one fail-once restart from the last good commit.

ai-agents · Aug 6 · 13 min

Parallel AI Agents on a Shared Checkout — The Lease Contract You Need

Running multiple coding agents on one Git working tree without a lease contract is a merge race, not parallelism. Here's the isolation and ownership pattern that prevents silent corruption.

dev-ecosystem · Aug 2 · 13 min

A Green Cron Exit Is Not a Finished Job

Exit code 0 with empty output is not success — it's a zombie task. Here's how to detect and own the proof artifacts that separate real completion from silent failure in AI agent cron pipelines.