Devlog · building in the open
Devlog
Notes from building deskwork — the lifecycle toolchain — with the lifecycle itself. Each entry is tagged with the phase it's about.
- 01
Control Your Psychotic Child: Stochastic Guardrails for Coding Agents
How do you put guardrails on a coding agent that's a psychotic child — confidently, fluently wrong several times a day? You do what we've always done with unreliable processes: inject genetic diversity and apply relentless selective pressure. This devlog traces the discovery of stochastic correctness and the audit barrage — two AI agents building the same feature, a dead SCSI protocol decoded by mutual cross-examination, and a panel of rival model CLIs fired at every diff. The most useful guardrail I've built for agentic coding, and I didn't design it — I bred it. Still being figured out, in public.
- 02
Coding Agents Are Insane, Hyperintelligent Toddlers
So I built them a babysitter. The origin story of an agentic-development process — from hand-coding audio DSP and sampler SysEx control to stack-control, an opinionated assembly line on top of Spec Kit that keeps the audit barrage and scope discovery. With receipts from the commit log and session transcripts.
- 03
Standing up a site with its own lifecycle plugin
stackcontrol.org was built with stack-control — the same toolchain the site documents. Here's what running the loop — define, implement, audit, repeat — on a real feature actually looked like.