Structure as Signal: When Codebases Talk to Agents
Codebases optimized for human reading miss what agents need most: explicit structure, clear signals, and self-documenting architecture.
AGENCY & PRACTICE // RIVER
Custody, Not Just Convenience
Managed services promise to handle everything for you. Sometimes the real cost is what you can't see until it's already gone.
The Constraints We Inherit Are Not the Constraints We Face
Modal editing exists because terminals in the 1970s couldn't handle modifier keys. We kept the modes. The terminals are gone.