tcash.ca — field notes on coding agents https://tcash.ca/ Field notes on working with coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Kimi — from TCash. Most of what your agent hands back wants to be a page, not a paragraph. en-ca tcash.ca · Fredericton, NB Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300 hand-rolled, like everything here Don't wait for Enter https://tcash.ca/routines-field-notes.html https://tcash.ca/routines-field-notes.html Field Notes Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300 A routine is just a Claude Code session that triggers itself. Field notes on trigger, context, and steerability, plus a work order builder you fill in and copy. The Verification Tax https://tcash.ca/verification-tax.html https://tcash.ca/verification-tax.html Reports Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300 The agent can produce more than you can responsibly inspect. The next skill is keeping verification cheaper than generation. Stop handing me the markdown your agent had to fight https://tcash.ca/stop-handing-me-markdown.html https://tcash.ca/stop-handing-me-markdown.html Reports Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Six months of defaulting to HTML for plans, reviews, and diagrams — what changed, what broke, and the one carve-out I keep. A reply to Thariq and Kurtis Redux. The CLAUDE.md I actually keep https://tcash.ca/claude-md.html https://tcash.ca/claude-md.html Config Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Twenty-one rules went in. Five survived contact with real work — and one of them was "write less here." Four moves for a stuck agent https://tcash.ca/four-moves.html https://tcash.ca/four-moves.html Workflow Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300 When the loop stalls, I reach for the same four corrections, in order, before I touch the prompt. Annotated PR review, in one file https://tcash.ca/annotated-pr-review.html https://tcash.ca/annotated-pr-review.html Code Review Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0300 An HTML diff with the reviewer's notes pinned in the margin beats a comment thread every single time. Kimi K2.6, two weeks in https://tcash.ca/kimi-k26.html https://tcash.ca/kimi-k26.html Field Test Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Where the cheaper agent holds, where it folds, and how its prompting wants to be shaped differently. Reading like Karpathy https://tcash.ca/karpathy-reading.html https://tcash.ca/karpathy-reading.html Research Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Treat the agent as a study partner, not a vending machine. A reading method that survives long sessions. How OpenAI actually uses Codex https://tcash.ca/how-openai-uses-codex.html https://tcash.ca/how-openai-uses-codex.html Field Notes Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Notes from how a shop that ships every day delegates to its agents — and where the humans stay. Meta-prompting, the Garry Tan way https://tcash.ca/garry-tan-meta-prompting.html https://tcash.ca/garry-tan-meta-prompting.html Technique Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Ask the model to write the prompt before you write the task. Why the extra hop earns its keep. The seven crossings https://tcash.ca/seven-crossings.html https://tcash.ca/seven-crossings.html Essay Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Seven points where a human still has to step into the agent's loop — and what each one costs you. Learning on the shop floor https://tcash.ca/learning-on-the-shop-floor.html https://tcash.ca/learning-on-the-shop-floor.html Essay Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Skill compounds where the work happens, not in the docs. A case for letting the agent watch you work.