https://blog.chughes.co/tags/mcp/Recent content in Mcp on Chris Hughes | Development JournalHugo -- 0.161.1en-usSun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.chughes.co/posts/2026-04-26-same-architecture-different-verdicts-eight-signals-for-scale/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.chughes.co/posts/2026-04-26-same-architecture-different-verdicts-eight-signals-for-scale/<p><em>Written with Claude.</em></p> <p><img alt="A wood-and-brass hand plane on the left labeled &lsquo;single firm&rsquo;, a networked LCD-and-antenna power tool on the right labeled &lsquo;fleet&rsquo;" loading="lazy" src="https://blog.chughes.co/images/2026-04-26-same-architecture-different-verdicts-eight-signals-for-scale/hero.svg"></p> <h2 id="writing-the-counterfactual-made-the-answer-obvious">Writing the Counterfactual Made the Answer Obvious</h2> <p>The problem we were solving is simple to state: every piece of equipment in an engineering assessment report needs a defensible replacement cost. Where did that number come from? How confident are we in it? Could a client or a peer reviewer trace it back to a source? Answering those questions for hundreds of items across dozens of projects is the whole job. The system we built to do it had one sentence at its core: put the correct number into a file safely.</p>