alunduil
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How Hard Is This to Undo
A rule I gave a coding agent, to keep it off the moves I couldn't undo, turned out to be one question—how hard is this to undo—sizing every decision I make.
How I'd Recover a Box I Can't Reach
The data was never the hard part. Recovering a Linux box I run from another continent is a plan I've never dared to run, and the risk lives in one configuration file.
Under the Instruments
I merged sixty-odd agent-written pull requests in a week, and it barely felt like work. The checks I built watch the code. Nothing watches me.
Who accounts for the agent?
An agent can do the work, and even build the guardrails that check it. Accountability is the harder question, and I'm not sure it can ever belong to the tool itself.