Notes

The context window size arms race misses the point. More tokens doesn’t solve the retrieval problem — it just makes it more expensive. The hard question is: what belongs in context vs. what belongs in a database?

Security theater exists because it’s much easier to measure compliance than risk reduction. You can count policies. You can’t count breaches that didn’t happen.

The best names compress a concept so densely that they change how you think about it. “Technical debt,” “rubber duck debugging,” “shift left.” Bad names make ideas harder to share. Good names make communities possible.