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Have a Second AI Check the First
I ran the cross-model review on the pull request, then skipped it on the two rounds where I wrote the most new code. When I went back and ran the pass I had skipped, a model from a different family found three bugs my own review had passed clean, then killed a design I was attached to. Then it read this post and killed its thesis too.
Have a Second AI Check the First
I ran the cross-model review on the pull request, then skipped it on the two rounds where I wrote the most new code. When I went back and ran the pass I had skipped, a model from a different family found three bugs my own review had passed clean, then killed a design I was attached to. Then it read this post and killed its thesis too.
What It Really Costs to Trust AI With Client Work
Connecting AI to the software that runs your client work is the easy part. Trusting it there is where the real cost hides. Here is what that trust is actually made of.
When the Session Dies: A Handoff Protocol for AI Agents
Claude Code sessions die for many reasons: compaction, restart, /clear, session-ID rotation. Each death is a context cliff. We built a handoff protocol to carry state across the seam, and tonight's session is its case study.
Baseline First: Measuring Our AI's Tool Calls Before Wiring an LSP
We took Anthropic's claim about LSP and reference resolution at face value, then measured what our agent was actually doing first. The number was 5.04 tool calls per symbol lookup. The surprise was where the calls went.
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