Skills as Composable Units Your expertise has a shape. A de facto standard is emerging for packaging agent capabilities—and it means you can solve problems once and carry them forward forever.
The Taste Artifact Your codebase is already teaching your AI agents. The question isn't whether you're teaching—it's whether you're teaching what you mean to.
Liberating Trapped Data You own documents you can't search. Data you can see but can't use. The coherentist move: build the extraction pipeline once and stop paying friction tax forever.
The Usability Inflection Point for Sandboxing Sandboxing has been possible for decades. Now it's forgettable—and that's when infrastructure starts to matter.
The Transcript as Work Product The distinction between doing work and documenting work is collapsing. The transcript is the artifact.
The Maintenance Threshold We rarely ask the question that actually determines survival: What will this cost me to keep running?
The Test Suite That Lets You Move Fast You know the feeling. You're staring at a function someone wrote three years ago. It works—probably. It's called from fourteen places. The original author left the company. There are no comments, or worse, comments that lie. You need to change it. You're pretty