Thoughts about AI engineering and making things better, by Nicole Chaves.
2026
- Prompts can't add missing information
- AI writes at maximum density
- Defining the perfect AI agent
- Consistency is the next frontier
- Context debt
- Memory systems aren't personal ML
- Specialization's hidden network costs
- Agents only see file lines
- The age of redo
- Great gatherers, terrible evaluators
- AI adoption psychosis
- Models take your lead
- Why agents map to skills
- Bad at writing
- The edge area in front of the model
- Markdown is code now