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Platforms, {quietly}.
I lead a team that builds internal platforms: pipeline templates, Terraform modules, shared workflows, governance as code. The teams that use them mostly never think about them. That's the point.
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I built an operating system for my AI, then deleted most of it
Four months of AI configuration grew into a five-folder system with version control and a nightly linter. Then Anthropic published new context-engineering rules, I audited what the thing actually believed, and cut long-term memory by 82 percent.
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