Field notes
Every argument so far.
In reading order.
Short essays built around specific engineering mechanisms, documented sources and a question that remains unresolved.
- Argument 01 / Integration
The integration tax starts before the pull request.
The difficult part is not how quickly a coding agent finishes. It is whether several finished changes still make sense as one product.
13 Oct 20265 min read - Argument 02 / Isolation
A worktree is not a world.
Two agents can edit separate branches and still destroy one another’s assumptions about the running system.
13 Oct 20264 min read - Argument 03 / Decision history
Save the decision, not just the session.
If agents can pick up one another’s work, they need to inherit more than a transcript of what happened.
13 Oct 20264 min read