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The most important skill in AI-assisted work isn't prompting. It's measuring whether your changes actually help.

What three years of building with AI actually taught me. 8 lessons on compaction survival, session architecture, and why the expensive model is the cheap one.

Three years of turning the temperature dial past where you're supposed to.

A keynote on the power of language in the age of AI. Delivered at Google Pittsburgh, December 2023. Never recorded. Published here for the first time.

What actually happens inside AI systems. No code.

Two fundamentally different things you build in AI coding sessions. Behavioral instructions vs. executable capabilities.

When to build vs. when to delete.