Came across this during a Claude Code (Opus 5) session, when the agent attempted a rm -rf (arguably the correct thing to do given the task I’d set). Emphasis mine Permission for this action was denied by the Claude Code auto mode classifier…
Came across this during a Claude Code (Opus 5) session, when the agent attempted a rm -rf (arguably the correct thing to do given the task I’d set). Permission for this action was denied by the Claude Code auto mode classifier. Reason: Bloc…
From: Software Factories, Light and Dark Addy Osmani’s concluding thoughts on Dex Horthy’s talk “Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail” (7:33-7:52): Emphasis mine Where the human actually goes I think engineers need…
From: Software Factories, Light and Dark Addy Osmani’s concluding thoughts on Dex Horthy’s talk “Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail” (7:33-7:52): I think engineers need to increasingly own the outer loop. The age…
Like every year since my conversion to Apple fanboy (and to try to justify my personal developer license 💸), I tuned into today’s WWDC keynote with great anticipation. This year, my notes ended up being structured and complete enough that
...it's been a while, blog! Life has been intense - new house, small child, stressful work days - measurable in ways such as the sharp decline in posts I've managed to publish.1 My goal with this post is to just get something published. I h…
I've watched & re-watched this wonderful 'The Pragmatic Engineer' episode with Kent Beck, and warmly recommend it to anyone whose interests cross over agile and programming and AI, as mine do. The two industry newsletters I read faithfully
A few months ago I wrote a post detailing my Emacs journey so far. Having read quite a lot of community posts, I think my path is one oft-taken: At the time of my previous post, I was firmly at step 3. My config was growing and growing, and…
It feels great to be back typing in my blog! After a March hiatus, due to me and my baby passing sicknesses back and forth, family visits, and being really, really busy (in a fun way) at work, I'm trying to carve back out time to write. It'…
Since 2019 I have been re-using the same Excel sheet for project budgeting. Over time I have used many variations of this sheet across many different software deliveries. All sorts of highs and lows have occurred across these deliveries, bu…
This week practically melted before me, one of those where I can read my calendar and go "sure, if that's what you say happened this week" 🫠 Now a full 8 weeks through the year, I feel like I'm at a point where I can tell what I can and ca…
This being a typical holiday week here in Denmark, I took Thursday & Friday off in order to get some more time with baby and take care of some 'dad chores' around the house. At the end of this four-day weekend I feel a bit relaxed and accom…