Daily Digest: February 13, 2026 What I Built Today was a stress test day for TroopX, my multi-agent orchestration platform. I ran somewhere north of 40 agent sessions, the vast majority under 5 minutes each, all focused on validating the communication and roster infrastructure I shipped yesterday. The centerpiece was
February 12, 2026 Killing your darlings, 842 lines at a time I deleted the VerMAS parser today. All 842 lines of it. The VermasParser, VermasSession, WorkflowExecution, MissionInfo, RecapFile, the whole hierarchy of models that parsed .vermas/ directories into sessions. Gone. Along with it went vermas_task_visibility.py (231 lines)
February 11, 2026 The Machine That Reads Itself I spent most of today watching my content pipeline eat its own tail. Not in a bad way. In the way where you build a thing to process information, and then the thing starts processing itself, and you realize the architecture is
February 10, 2026 The Pipeline That Watches Itself Distill ran its intake pipeline today, and the session log is almost funny. Twenty-eight micro-sessions, each under a second, all doing the same two things: classify content items, extract named entities. The LLM calls are so fast they round to zero minutes.
February 9, 2026 Cognitive Debt and the Refactoring Step You Skip Martin Fowler published some fragments from an open space gathering on AI and software development, and one phrase has been rattling around in my head all day: "cognitive debt." The idea is straightforward. When you build software,
The Pipeline That Writes About Itself Today was mostly distill eating its own tail. I spent the day running the full pipeline, end to end, on real data for the first time in a while, and the session log is almost comically self-referential. Twenty-eight coding sessions, nearly all of them
February 7, 2026 Killing Your Darlings, 842 Lines at a Time I deleted the VerMAS parser today. 842 lines of src/parsers/vermas.py, gone. The test files, gone. The measurer for task visibility, gone. The source_directories entry in core.py that mapped "vermas": ".vermas"