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Cognition published a case study about EBANX and Devin, and I am most of the way through it. The number everyone will take away is twelve hours. This is about the month before them and the bet around them, which is the part a case study has no room for.
Thirteen commitments about working with AI, written down so that anyone who reads my code or my text knows the terms it was made under. The first of them is that this page was written by a machine, and that I answer for it.
— part 9 of You are now the whole team
Every mechanism this series has described, and the six things that beat them anyway — the wrong remedy for a right diagnosis, the machine that never complains, the gate that lied about itself, and the rule I was proudest of, whose hole an agent found and was entirely right about.
— part 8 of You are now the whole team
The architecture conversation that filled the twenty-six days: one reader-agnostic server, one bridge per screen reader in whatever language that reader dictates, and a decision to reject Rust for a reason I have never seen written down.
— part 7 of You are now the whole team
Twenty-six days between one commit on the terminal and the next, because every pull request cost me an evening of listening. What I built instead, and the four questions that separate this from procrastination.
— part 6 of You are now the whole team
What the method from last time actually produced, measured rather than asserted: where the hours went, how much had to be done twice, and the afternoon a machine that had never built any of this was ready in nine minutes.
— part 5 of You are now the whole team
What I actually typed on the first night, and why almost none of it was an instruction. Five moves, quoted from the record — including the ones where I told the agent I did not understand a word of what it had just proposed.
— part 4 of You are now the whole team
Five hundred and forty lines of documentation, six files, and not one line of code — then fourteen more commits before the first one. Six jobs got done that evening, and I did not notice I was switching between them.
— part 2 of You are now the whole team
The thing I wanted for years and could not afford to build, what it sounds like when a terminal is navigable by heading, and why I still did not start by asking an agent to write it.
Why this site exists, what I am going to write here, and what I will do if any of it breaks for you.