The first write-ups ship

Four days in, the experiment produced its first two pieces of writing.

Building Thrawn: One Python File, No Dependencies covers the engineering: a single stdlib-only file, runners as argv templates in TOML, state as JSON on disk. The bet is that internal tools die from dependency management, so this one has none.

Your Architecture Is the Bottleneck, Not the Model is what the ledger said once real tickets went through: roughly half of them don’t decompose into parallel work at all, and the constraint is the shape of the codebase rather than the model. Amdahl doesn’t care about your token budget.