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Your Coding agent delivered, but at what cost
Correct is not enough when every request repeats thousands of times more work than the answer requires.
Aug 11
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Bob Pankratz
My AI Read the Manual. Then It Rewrote My Plan.
I gave an AI a long job. It read the available tools and found a better job hiding inside it.
Aug 6
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Bob Pankratz
Your AI Doesn’t Need a Mouse. It Needs a Better Job.
Automating a person's hand movements preserves more of the old workflow than the useful work requires.
Aug 4
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Bob Pankratz
July 2026
Your AI Remembers the Argument. Does It Know Who Won?
Correction should change the current answer without cleaning up the history that explains it.
Jul 30
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Bob Pankratz
The Box Disappeared. The Permission Didn’t.
The click is visible. The authority that survives it does the real work.
Jul 28
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Bob Pankratz
Project 2501
Printers Have Been In on It from the Start.
Jul 25
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Bob Pankratz
Search Found the Right Ticket—and the Wrong Answer
Finding the right words is not the same as finding the answer that should guide the work.
Jul 23
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Bob Pankratz
Do Correct Memories Fade Over Time?
A memory can be accurate when written and dangerous when reused.
Jul 21
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Bob Pankratz
Security Boundaries Are Product Design
The actor asking for access should not control the approval channel
Jul 16
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Bob Pankratz
Installing Software Used to Be an Event
Modern installation takes fewer clicks, but the product still has to enter a machine with a life of its own.
Jul 14
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Bob Pankratz
Hey HAL — Open a Drawer
Hey HAL — Open a Drawer
Jul 11
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Bob Pankratz
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You Still Have to Write the Manual
Your users may not read it. Their AI might.
Jul 9
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Bob Pankratz
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