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Software engineering after code generation stops being the hard part.
Code is cheap now. Judgment is still scarce. Khola.Blog lives in that gap: the invariants a generated diff has to honor, the abstractions that stop paying rent under load, the failure modes that wait politely outside the demo, and the taste that decides what ships. I call it post-human engineering.
There are two kinds of posts here.
Field Tests are small experiments, most weeks. Somebody claims agents behave a certain way, and instead of arguing about it I run it and publish the numbers. These are weekend-scale, not research: one person, a laptop, a modest API bill. The code and the raw runs are public every time, including the runs that went badly. You’ll get a bottom line in the first paragraph and the details underneath if you want them.
Essays are the longer arguments about where all this is going. Judgment about verification, architecture, legacy systems, and what stays human when the typing gets automated. The hype gets audited. So does the doom.
The experiments and the essays feed each other, and both are fed by The Post-Human Briefing, my daily AI and markets brief. The Briefing is built end to end by agents and audited by me, and it’s where most Field Test ideas come from. A machine surfaces the claim, an experiment measures it, and a person decides what it means. That division of labor is the whole thesis, and running it in public is more honest than writing about it.
I’m a working engineer and I write from that chair. I ship with these tools, I review what they produce, and production has corrected my opinions more than once. If a claim can’t survive contact with a profiler or a postmortem, it doesn’t run. When I get something wrong, the correction goes in the post rather than quietly into the archive.
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