The Last 10 Percent
Neha Srivastava \ud83c\udf6aNotes on creativity, craft, technology, and caring enough to go the last 10%
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Turnback: A Lazy Engineer's Approach to Multi-turn Attribution
There is a quote that gets passed around in engineering circles, that you should always give a hard job to a lazy person because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. I have been using this as personal justification for years, and t...
Honest Engineering
The Claude Code CLI source became readable last week through an accidental sourcemap publish. The polite thing would have been to not look. The second most polite thing would have been to look but not write about it. I have now done neither...
Hand-Me-Down Hobbies much?
I know more about trains than I consented to, but I didn’t fully understand how far gone I was until last week, when I found myself genuinely, independently excited about a model train show happening in my city this weekend. Not excited in...
The Hardest Thing to Teach an Autonomous Agent Is When to Do Nothing
There’s a documented story about a multi-agent system that slipped into a recursive loop and ran for 11 days before anyone noticed. Two agents had been talking to each other non-stop, burning compute while the team assumed everything was wo...
The Solo Hackathon Problem
Can you tell when Claude Sonnet 4.5 entered my life? My GitHub looks like I got replaced by a one-person hackathon machine, where an idea hits at lunch and by dinner I’m deploying to Vercel. I’m building lightweight versions of products I’d...
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