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Agents Don't Refactor

Traditional coders touched a file and tidied it. The Boy Scout Rule. Now nobody does. Agents add, they don't subtract, and the codebase accretes faster than ever. A technique for putting cleanup back in as an explicit gate, not a virtue you hope for.

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Don't Take Their Legos Away

A CTO once told me not to take people's Legos away. I ignored him, solved the team's problems myself, and got exactly what I optimised for: a sound plan and a team that couldn't stand me. In 2026, with agents doing the bricks, this is the lesson that matters.

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Stop Installing AI Tools

Vercel got breached through Context.ai, an AI tool an employee installed with OAuth scopes into Google Workspace. It's the latest in a pattern: Trivy into litellm, axios maintainer hijack, now this. The safest AI tool is the one you didn't install.

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Benchmarks Are Bullshit

Berkeley just built an agent that games AI benchmarks. Karpathy called it months ago. The best coding model doesn't top the charts, the highest-ranked Chinese models disappoint in practice, and the entire leaderboard industry optimizes for the wrong thing.

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The Trust Tax: Anthropic's Worst Month

Anthropic silently changed Claude Code's cache TTL from 1 hour to 5 minutes, inflating costs 10-20x. Users had to reverse-engineer the binary to prove it. False child bans, $600 surprise charges, and the OpenClaw crackdown completed the picture. April 2026 was the month trust broke.

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Same Terms, Different Treatment

The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic for insisting AI shouldn't power autonomous weapons or mass surveillance. Hours later, it gave OpenAI a deal with weaker guardrails dressed up as the same thing. From a developer who ships with Claude daily.

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