The hidden reason LLMs still need you in the loop

What engineers add that the model still can’t replicate LLMs have transformed how technical teams write, analyze and design systems. They deliver speed and reach but they also introduce instability. Anyone who has worked with them sees the pattern. The same prompt can produce different answers. The same reasoning chain can shift when the context window changes. These models are powerful but they are not stable in the way engineers expect from production systems. This inconsistency is not a narrow bug. It is a property of how these models work. ...

February 1, 2026

README driven development

Readme Driven Development written by Tom Preston-Werner in 2010 is a timeless post about using a README to scope a project and collaborate with others. Here are the 4 key ideas I got from the post: Your README is the most important document in your codebase. So write your README first. A README constrains you to single file which makes it a short, light-weight and not-too-precise introduction to your code. A README helps with discussion and collaboration. See also Weekly incremental value

December 15, 2020