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The AI Did Exactly What It Was Told
A refund policy, three refused regulars, and the five lines that would have caught the rules nobody wrote down.
Oct 26
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Don Demcsak
September 2026
Stop Describing the Task. Hand Over the Runbook Instead.
The three-question prompt that catches what a fast read misses, before it's code.
Sep 24
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Don Demcsak
Four VMs. Four Minutes. A Script That Sounded Right.
A migration deadline, a script that read clean, and a field name that's never existed in your environment.
Sep 21
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Don Demcsak
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Stop Your AI Coding Agent From Re-Guessing Old Decisions
What it looks like when the agent reads the decision instead of re-guessing it.
Sep 17
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Don Demcsak
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Two Weeks Later You Ask For A Small Tweak, And The Agent Redecides The Whole Thing
The decision didn't feel big enough to write down. That was the mistake.
Sep 14
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Don Demcsak
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Answer Four Questions Before You Prompt, So The Decision Actually Exists Somewhere
A one-file habit that stops your agent from re-guessing what you already decided.
Sep 10
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Don Demcsak
1
You Ask The Agent Why It Built It That Way. It Doesn't Know Either
It's Saturday night, and you're eleven prompts deep into something that's actually working
Sep 8
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Don Demcsak
When "AI-Generated" Became a Red Flag in the Room
The room didn't go quiet because you used AI. It went quiet because your answer didn't have anywhere to land.
Sep 3
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Don Demcsak
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August 2026
The Green Checkmark Lie: Why "It Ran" Isn't the Same as "It Worked"
A green checkmark only proves the code ran. It never asked whether what ran was actually right.
Aug 31
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Don Demcsak
The Assistant That Started Doing Something You Never Asked It To
It never broke a rule. Nobody ever wrote one.
Aug 10
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Don Demcsak
Write the Check Before You Write the Prompt
One sentence, ninety seconds, before you touch the prompt box again.
Aug 6
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Don Demcsak
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The 4:47 PM Slack Message Every AI Builder Eventually Gets
Nothing was broken. That's what made it worse.
Aug 3
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Don Demcsak
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