Jared

Blog posts, Sean admits, like the ones he writes on the regular.

In a world where you could rewrite the entire system at will, generic software design advice would be much more practical.

Some projects are like this, but the majority of software engineering work is done on systems that cannot be safely rewritten.

These systems cannot rely on software design, but must instead rely on internal consistency and the carefulness of their engineers.

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I'm Jared, and this is ChangeLog News for the week of Monday, December 8th, 2025.

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the confident idiot problem, or why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks.

If you've been following the how do we actually use AI in production conversation stream, you've probably heard people propose a strategy where one LLM checks another LLM's results.

But will that work?