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The Engine Shop

A three-part essay about AI-assisted software, hard contracts, and the engineering loop that can keep up with cheap implementation.

  1. Part 1

    Part 1: AI, Rockets, and the Return of Hard Contracts

    What gets cheap when implementation is abundant, and what stays stubbornly expensive

  2. Part 2

    Part 2: The Obvious Answer Is `--yolo` // The Obvious answer is insane

    What happens when agentic development escapes the approval queue

  3. Part 3

    The Engine Shop, Part 3: The New Compiler

    What remains human when implementation becomes abundant

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