LLMs work best with work that has crystallized outputs.
- LLMs work best with work that has crystallized outputs.
- Examples: code, law, scribe notes for medicine.
- But the vast majority of knowledge work doesn't have this kind of output.
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- A pattern for high-quality LLM code: in the design phase, tell the agent to make no assumptions without confirming.2026-05-11
- We think of computation as happening all at one layer of a system.2026-03-30
- Means should be as invisible and low friction as possible.2026-02-23
- Excellent piece from Jasmine Sun about Claude Code Psychosis.2026-02-02
- Rebecca Kaden: I Don't Want to Build Apps (or at least not the ones I actually use)2026-01-26
- The vast, vast majority of code that exists in the world is junk code.2026-01-19