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A refusal wall in the middle of ordinary product work, why the brakes should exist anyway, and the practical boundary that keeps security-adjacent tooling out of everyday context.
One day your coding agents are brilliant, the next they are useless. It is not random: they lose signal in noise. Treat AI behaviour like a project and version control it.
Chezmoi solved two core problems I’ve been struggling with for a long time: I couldn’t see my AI, and I didn’t know what changed. Here’s how tracking config files in git gave me observability for my AI’s behavior.
The Ralph Loop is a forever-running agent plugin from Anthropic. But without backpressure, more iterations can actually widen the scope of regressions. Here is why TDD is the answer.
AI slop is everywhere. Backpressure, a flow control mechanism borrowed from fluid dynamics and software systems, is how you stop it reaching you.