Thinking on product truth, behavior specs, and building software teams can reason about.
Subscribe via RSSYou interrupt your own flow to check /context, racing to save your work before compaction eats it. That vigilance is a tax — and you can automate it away.
Generating technical documentation from a codebase is easy now. Trusting it isn't. Evidence-linked claims and human sign-off are the missing steps.
Comprehension debt finally has a name. The popular cure — write more docs — inherits the gap it's meant to close. What actually pays it down.
Compaction keeps a coding agent running by quietly deleting the why, so you become its memory. What gets lost, why it compounds, and the local-first fix.
LangChain OpenWiki validates repo documentation for coding agents. But repo orientation is not the same as evidence-graded product understanding.
Your vibe-coded app caught on and now people pay for it — but you can't fully explain it. Build a mental model without reading every line, top-down.
Your product works. On launch day someone asks what it does at the edges — and you'd have to open the file to answer. That gap is the real launch risk.
Vibe-coding got you a working product you can't speak for. Reclaiming it isn't slowing down — it's re-authoring what you shipped, behavior by behavior.
You own a product you can't explain — acquired, inherited, or vibe-coded with AI. Here's how to read code you didn't really write, behavior by behavior.
You vibe-coded a working product. Users use it. You can't speak for it without reading every line. The product is yours — you just don't know it yet.
