Notes/May 2026

May 2026

The Four-Eyes Principle Isn't Slowing You Down

AI is accelerating PR volume and cracking a review bottleneck that's been straining for years. The proposed fix — let any engineer approve anything — guts the signal four-eyes is supposed to provide. There's a better answer, and it predates AI.

AX: Agent Experience

There's a term for what I've been focused on: AX. Agent Experience. It's been around a while, and it's where most of my time has gone recently.

Disable the 1M context window

Claude Code ships with a 1M token context window. We don't need it. Disable it and your context becomes something you have to manage.

How I avoid context switching

There's a quiet assumption in agentic workflows that context switching stopped being a problem. It didn't. Here's how I capture mid-session discoveries without leaving the task I'm actually in.

Language Was Always Important

DDD made the case for precise language in software long before AI arrived. Now everyone's rediscovering it — just without the attribution.