Posts connected by the workflow tag.
📅 July 29, 2026
⏱️ 10 min read
Spec-driven development is a vague enough term that it can mean anything from a paragraph of intent to a fully waterfalled design. I tried the fully-specified version and it backfired: it left no room for an autonomous agent to explore alternatives. What worked instead was naming the actual sequence. Build multiple proofs of concept, verify each one against something real, and only then write the design document, informed by what the proofs of concept actually showed.
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📅 June 29, 2026
⏱️ 6 min read
Nine years of work notes, from sort-of-daily Markdown files in 2017 to monthly Word docs to a single yearly running document, and how AI agents finally took over the writing through worklogs.
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📅 May 05, 2026
⏱️ 8 min read
Why the word 'hunting' matters: context doesn't just lie around waiting to be picked up. Real context requires active investigation, tracing code, chasing state transitions, and turning what you found into something the whole team can use.
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📅 April 01, 2026
⏱️ 8 min read
Why effort tracking (where is my time going?) needs to be separate from work tracking (what am I building?) and how centralizing effort in one tool provides visibility that scattered work-tracking systems can't.
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📅 March 28, 2026
⏱️ 10 min read
How worklogs transformed my workflow with AI coding agents (capturing context across sessions, using GitHub Issues as a backend, and turning structured logs into an agentic work queue).
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