postmodern software engineering by David Semke
RSS
  • Intentionally Undefined Behavior COMING SOON

    An agent's creativity fills every space you leave open, like water. Specifying work for something that reasons means deciding where the spaces go, and most people put them in the wrong half.

  • Hallucination Is a One-Shot Problem

    The cost of a hallucination is set by the cost of checking it, not by how often it happens. Code is the cheapest thing in the world to check, and an agentic loop checks constantly.

    28 September 2026
  • Terrarium Testing

    Build a small sealed world, put the real services in it, and let an agent go hunting.

    24 August 2026

You are visitor number to postmodern software engineering by David Semke

Email LinkedIn
© 2026