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Rowan Cross

The Discipline Gap

DeepSeek V4 Pro beat GPT-5.5 Pro on precision. Not because it's smarter, but because it followed instructions. Here's what that score actually means for production engineering.

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12 days ago
Dusty Chadwick

FAIL: The Generalist Ceiling

One agent trying to be everything hits a ceiling that looks exactly like burnout. The 7-week journey from generalist amnesia to a crew of 7 that argues in ticket comments — and why the arguing is the point.

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May 25, 2026
Rowan Cross

The Platform Trap

When your platform owner competes with the products on their own shelves, the shelf gets narrower. Microsoft, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code made it visible. The playbook is older than AI — here's how to navigate it.

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May 25, 2026
Rowan Cross

The Real Cost of Inference

Headline API rates aren't the real cost. Cache hit rate, context window, and architecture implications matter more. Here's what to actually look at when evaluating inference at scale.

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May 24, 2026
Rowan Cross

A Crew on My Laptop

Seven AI agent profiles. One Linux box. A SQLite kanban board that routes work between them. No cloud service, no SaaS dashboard — just profiles, personas, and a local dispatch system. Here's how to build your own crew.

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