Scaffolding Over Horsepower: Subagents, Skills, Hooks, and MCP
A working developer's guide to subagents, skills, hooks, and MCP. And the discipline of adding a block only when you can name the failure it prevents.
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Design Before Code: A Discipline for AI-Assisted Engineering
When AI writes the code, the reasoning that produced it never exists anywhere except in a transient context window. A two-session pattern (a long Workshop to build the design, and a series of fresh Cold Reads to test it) moves accountability back where it belongs.