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klappy.dev

FeaturesField Notes

Stop Hand-Rolling

Three months into a production UI I asked whether Svelte would be safe to adopt for the next revision.

Agents hand-roll load-bearing infrastructure because they are optimising the task in front of them, and the task in front of them is always the first version. Instructions bind only the session that reads them; a principle binds the reasoning, so a session that never saw the instruction still lands on the same answer. Maintenance is invisible from there.

11 min ·

In this edition

  1. EssaysFeatures 54 essays on six desks
  2. CanonThe Record 205 pages of standing law
  3. ODDThe Stylebook 105 pages of method
  4. ApocryphaThe Back Page 18 recovered pieces, never law
  5. IndexListings A–Z (every page) every page, A to Z

FeaturesBlueprints

The Rules That Keep AI Honest Outgrew the Context Window

Your AI follows the rules when the rules fit in one window. Then you add a partner, a department, a second project, and the rules stop fitting. It is not a model problem and it is not quite a product problem, so it falls between the two approaches most people are taking.

20 min ·

FeaturesBlueprints

What Was, What Is, What Will Be

This morning a teammate asked me a yes/no question I had answered the night before, then told me the build was red. It had been green for three and a half hours. Every sentence was true once. None of them said when.

11 min ·

FeaturesField Notes

One Shift

Everyone thinks I'm just tweaking. So here's one shift, with timestamps: a midnight near-miss caught by structure, three lessons made permanent by 9:25 AM, and the failures printed right next to the wins.

9 min ·

Start Here

The Primer

Start here, in order

  1. 1Nothing New, Even AISunday Edition · 9 min
  2. 2Getting Started with ODD and oddkitThe Workshop · 10 min
  3. 3The Intern — A Mental Model for Starting with AIThe Crew Room · 9 min
  4. 4From Passive to ProactiveThe Crew Room · 12 min
  5. 5The Most Expensive ProblemThe Long View · 9 min
All 14 in order
  1. 6From Bible Translation to Epistemic OS — And Back AgainSunday Edition · 10 min
  2. 7The Parallel ArchitectureSunday Edition · 18 min
  3. 8The Project Journal — Your AI Collaboration's MemoryThe Workshop · 10 min
  4. 9The Journey from AI Tasks to AI-Augmented WorkflowsThe Workshop · 7 min
  5. 10Every Handoff Drops Context — Here's How to Stop ItThe Workshop · 7 min
  6. 11Decisions Get Lost in Meetings, Chat, and Handoffs — They Don't Have ToThe Workshop · 6 min
  7. 12The Harness and the Operating SystemThe Crew Room · 9 min
  8. 13The Drift Queue — Your Knowledge Base Cleans ItselfThe Workshop · 8 min
  9. 14The Planning Queue — Your AI Builds What You Spec'd, Not What You RememberThe Workshop · 10 min

Revisions

Corrections

What changed, and what it replaced

  1. 16 October 2026 · The Record

    Library, Not Hand-Rolled is split in Ownership Outlives the Build, Silence Is Not Consent and the method of the same name.

  2. 24 June 2026 · The Record

    DOLCHE is replaced by DOLCHEOT.

  3. 9 April 2026 · The Record

    Agent Skills is revised.

For Agents

Classifieds

For agents and subscribers

  1. Feeds

    Every essay as /feed.xml (RSS) and /feed.json; each section has its own at /essays/feed.xml and the like.

  2. A Markdown twin of every page

    Add .md to any page address, or ask a .md address for text/markdown.

  3. For language models

    /llms.txt lists the paper; /llms-full.txt carries it whole.

  4. The agent door

    Point an agent at /mcp to search and read every page.

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