6 essays tagged practice.
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Proven tools fail in ways that are documented, searchable, and usually fixed by lunch. We spend our novelty budget on the product instead of the stack.
Durable software is not a feature you add at the end. It is a series of refusals made early, and a maintenance bill almost nobody quotes up front.
AI can generate a working draft of almost anything, which makes judgment the scarce resource. Here is how we think about building well when the first draft is nearly free.
Before Lightforge built anything for other people, it built tools for itself. Being our own first user turned out to be an unexpectedly demanding teacher.
A prototype's job is not to impress. It is to answer the most dangerous open question as cheaply as possible, and sometimes to tell you not to build the thing at all.