Writing software is no longer just writing code.
Spec driven development: who checks at the end?
I counted Spec Kit's prompts: 13,647 words of instruction before any code exists, and 1,764 after.
Prompt injection already had a name in 1988
I went looking for what to call the thing that had blocked me and found four names waiting: the newest is 38 years old and the oldest is about telephones.
I counted dcode's loop and found the stopping condition
Two thirds of internal/loop is test, and the file that decides what done means protects its own tests from whoever is stuck in the loop.
I argued with my own harness and lost
dcode blocked an installation three times that I had authorised in writing, and that is what harness engineering is about.
What the hell is a harness?
The word I use every day, that you have known since childhood, and that almost nobody still pictures — told through the horse tack it came from.
