Agent-Built · Part 1
An Agent Built This Blog
Eleven planned commits in 79 minutes, a shippable site the same afternoon, and the validation gauntlet that makes agent publishing safe.
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Always Shippable
Thoughts on building always shippable systems, moving fast without breaking things, and making complex work simple and enjoyable.
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All posts →Strudel Bench · Part 5
arrival
Eight sections, 62 parts, 28 instruments, and two wills that never merge. One piece of music taken apart: what carries it, and what it cannot do.
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Mixing as a scene
A mix is where things are, not how loud they are: one hall, a position each, levels by role, a played feel, and a tool that measures whether it worked.
15 min readStrudel Bench · Part 3
Knobs in the code
A tour of the Compose page: three views on one source string that all write back through one door, and the four controls that only change what you hear.
13 min readStrudel Bench · Part 2
Say darker
Twenty-nine English words, each a set of deltas on a song's numeric axes: how they apply, what they refuse, what saturates, and how much reads back.
14 min readStrudel Bench · Part 1
A language on top of Strudel
Strudel is a fine instrument and a poor score. What strudel-bench adds: named sections, parts with baselines, twelve knobs per part, a layer you can decompile.
18 min readFinances · Part 4
Real taxes, less hearsay
My simulator's flat 5% tax knob was hearsay. A real tax engine measured 22%, the knob went to 15%, and asset location beat every Roth conversion video.
