ELI7 Is Load-Bearing

Written with Claude. A Session I Mostly Didn’t Run I noticed something today while closing out a Claude session. The epic I finished implementing, #349 Parallel Agent Dispatch Quality, was three sub-issues I had not written. Prior sessions of mine had written them. I had no real memory of the specifics. The code-reviewer agent sometimes ships findings that are wrong. Three parallel reviewers produce prose the coordinator has to manually merge. Parallel implementation agents rename things in their own files and leave stale references in sibling files. Each of those is a filed issue with a proposed mechanical fix in the body. ...

April 18, 2026 · 4 min · 824 words · Chris Hughes

All You Need Is Kill: A PCA Engineer's Loop

Inspired by All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka—a story about a soldier trapped in a time loop who uses each death to get better at surviving. Part 1: The Death The war is already happening. Has been for decades. The battlefield is commercial real estate. Office towers, hotels, warehouses, medical buildings. Every one of them hiding secrets. ...

January 20, 2026 · 11 min · 2192 words · Chris Hughes