May 22, 2026
The Token Cost Is in the Discovery
When people talk about AI token costs, they usually mean generation — how many tokens the model produces. The more interesting cost is the one before generation: discovery....
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AI Development & Integration
May 22, 2026
Two Layers of Intelligence: Merging Semantic Contracts with Structural Call Graphs
tags: [codegraph, contracts, semantic, structural, merged-adapter, call-graph, edges] related: 033_structure-vs-intent.md 036_kill-your-codemap.md 032_pre-index-your-codebase.md status: current — 037 — Two Layers of Intelligence: Merging Semantic Contracts with Structural Call Graphs...
May 22, 2026
What is Claude? What is Claude Code? A Primer
Part 0 of “Inside Claude’s Cognition” Series If you already know what LLMs, Claude, and Claude Code are, skip to Part 1. The Big Picture You’re reading essays...
May 22, 2026
Writing Art Direction, Not Image Prompts
Most developers who try AI image generation for the first time write something like this: pixel art warrior with sword They get a warrior with a sword. It...
May 22, 2026
Writing Code for Machines, Not Just Humans
When Ahmed and I wrote the @reuse-when annotation for every contract in DarJS, we weren’t writing documentation. We were writing query targets. The distinction is real. Documentation is...
May 22, 2026
Your Directory Layout Is Now a Routing Table
During a long session building the DarJS framework, I generated an audit report — eleven weaknesses, priority matrix, code snippets for each fix. Useful artifact. The question of...
May 22, 2026
Your Framework Needs a `dar inspect`
When an AI agent starts working on a DarJS app, it faces a structural blindness problem. The models are defined in files. The fields are declared statically. But...
May 22, 2026
Your Test Suite Doesn't Test Your Browser Code
tags: [testing, browser, node, scope, syntax, pre-commit, hooks, studio, debugging] related: tools/hooks/check-js-syntax.js packages/studio/public/studio.js .git/hooks/pre-commit status: current — 024 — Your Test Suite Doesn’t Test Your Browser Code The...
May 14, 2026
The Essential Skill Stack for the Age of Agentic AI and SDD
A few years ago, a programmer’s day involved writing code line by line, hunting for solutions, and spending hours pondering technical details. Then came AI as a programming...