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October 22, 2026•4 min read
A Passing Test Is Not a Finished ChangeA grader can be wrong. So can an agent's summary of its own change. Give coding agents checks that can prove them wrong while they can still fix the change.
October 14, 2026•3 min read
How we built a CS 1.6-inspired shooter in 4 days with ZergboardI narrated one playtest. Zergboard made 13 tickets; the first fix was live at 1:51 AM ET.
September 28, 2026•5 min read
Keep your coding tools. Choose your models.Run DeepSeek in Codex, give each agent a budget, and see which account has room. ZergRouter brings model choice, explicit fallbacks, and usage into one place.
July 2, 2026•5 min read
Nobody Reads Code AnymoreCode review used to mean reading the diff carefully. Now it means skimming a diff an agent wrote and clicking approve. The bugs that get past skim-review are different — and the review surface has to change.
May 21, 2026•4 min read
The Gigacontext ThresholdContext windows are scaling toward a billion tokens. The retrieval-vs-window architecture call is already being made.
April 14, 2026•4 min read
Build NowCapital and labor are decoupling. The cost of building software has collapsed while VCs figure out what to finance. There\
January 12, 2026•8 min read
The Bootstrapping LoopWhat would you build if you could write a million lines of working code per day? AI-accelerated coding is the latest turn of computing\\
January 12, 2026•12 min read
The 4 Phases of Vibe CodingI built a terminal-based Counter-Strike clone with a coding agent. 49K lines in a week. These projects go through 4 distinct phases, and understanding them is the key to effective AI-assisted development.

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