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Building by describing intent to AI — where 'vibe coding' delivers and where it quietly costs you.

The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis

The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis

The slides and the full talk breakdown live on the other track. This isn't that post. This is the other thing that happened at CAST26, and the reason this series ended on a stage at all: seven posts' worth of argument, finally standing in front of a room that got to push back.

I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.

I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.

Post 1 of 5 — announcing "AI Transformation" and my chapter, "Quality at Machine Speed". Some news I've been sitting on for a while: this August, I'm becoming a published book author.

BowFest 2026: what a field full of archers told me that no test suite could

BowFest 2026: what a field full of archers told me that no test suite could

BowFest 2026: what a field full of archers told me that no test suite could

Fable 5 came back. It didn't get its job back

Fable 5 came back. It didn't get its job back

My favourite model came back and I didn't give it the architect seat. Not because it got worse — because the seat got measured. What happens to a stack when the tool you were attached to returns.

From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place

From Vision to Production: the whole series, in one place

Over seven posts I wrote down how it actually happened: what worked, what it cost, and what failed. This is the map to all of it, so you can start wherever you want.

Opus Max as architect: what actually changed when Fable went away

Opus Max as architect: what actually changed when Fable went away

Opus Max as architect: what actually changed when Fable went away. Short answer: less than you'd think — if you know what the tier is for.

I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway

I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway

Fable was the best tool in my stack. Then it went unavailable, and I had to give the architect seat to Opus Max on short notice.What I got was faster hand-offs. This is the post about why — and why I think losing the tool made the work better, not despite the constraint but because of it.