One of us still manages. One went back to building. AI smashed those jobs together, so we argue in public. Weekly.
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Stock DeepSeek refused to write the phishing email. Brian switched to the abliterated twin of the same model and it wrote the lure, reset link included.
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Klaus thinks dedicated tech debt weeks should be gone. Kunal's not sure, because you're shipping a lot more than you used to.
An abliterated model has the refusal weights cut out. Brian ran one on an isolated home lab next to stock DeepSeek. Same model family. One writes the phishing email, the other won't.
Brian's personal wiki ranks sources by trust. His own words count most, then his calls, then the podcasts and newsletters he trusts. Random web results never get in.
Brian deleted all of his custom sub-agents this week. He still runs vanilla sub-agents constantly, because a test writer shouldn't know what the implementer did.
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Tomorrow on Manager Builder, Kunal and Brian debate generalized vs specialized agents.
"Most of our best practices are just best practices for humans."
In planning, Claude should ask what you want to do and then stop. Once it hands you a recommended option, it's too easy to just hit Enter.
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One-shot vs progressive on the same monitoring stream.
One-shot: four false pages, missed the leak, a couple of cents.
Progressive: one page, no false positives, about 50 cents.
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One-shot vs progressive on the same monitoring stream.
One-shot: four false pages, missed the leak, a couple of cents.
Progressive: one page, no false positives, about 50 cents.
managerxbuilder.substack.com…