notes on better ways to work

a coding agent spends most of its budget reading, not writing. prewalk pays a frontier model to do the reading, then hands the warm context to a cheap model to finish the job.

the useful question is not whether a product has an agent. it is whether the system gives the work a better shape.

the largest automation opportunities often live in the handoffs, status checks, and context reconstruction surrounding the visible task.

a useful system does more than store outputs. it preserves the state, evidence, and decisions that make the next step possible.