Method · how I work

Eight rules I make
the machines follow.

1. 01
   Classify by blast radius first.

   Trivial change: just do it. Foundation, schema, auth, anything irreversible: research, alternatives, a fight, then code.

2. 02
   The source is the truth.

   Memory of how an API behaves is a hypothesis. Read the migration, not the doc about it.

3. 03
   Green tests are the floor.

   Runtime evidence is the proof. Running the product has found bugs a thousand passing tests hid, every time.

4. 04
   Every fix ships with its negative control.

   Revert it, watch the symptom return, restore it, watch it vanish.

5. 05
   Review your own diff as a hostile reviewer.

   Then spawn real ones: independent skeptics whose job is to refute.

6. 06
   Keep a durable trail.

   Context compacts. A decision not written into a commit, a plan or a memory did not happen.

7. 07
   End every task with what is verified and what is not.

   Passes types, could not run the integration tests, beats false confidence.

8. 08
   No fabricated numbers. Anywhere.

   If nothing measured it, it does not go on the page.