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What Compounds
The career advice that doesn’t sound like advice
Jun 2 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

May 2026

The Cold Reviewer
Pushback only works from outside the thread
May 26 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Small Threads
The million-token window did not change the discipline
May 19 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Build Three, Keep One
Exploration got fast. Deliberation didn't.
May 12 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Kill the Pull Request
Code review was designed for human-speed development
May 5 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

April 2026

Cognitive Debt
Your agents build faster than you can understand
Apr 28 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Technical Debt Is Dead
The shortcut costs the same as the right solution now
Apr 21 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Not Every Session Needs a Plan
Plan mode is a tool, not a default
Apr 14 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Software Feels Free Again
How collapsing build costs are killing the subscription trap
Apr 7 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

March 2026

The Cheap Subscription Is Not Enough
Why real fluency with agents requires volume
Mar 31 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
Make the Test Fail First
A practical way to use red-green TDD with AI agents
Mar 24 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
What an AI Agent Should Find in a New Component
A four-question test for whether the component explains itself
Mar 17 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae
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