Eltahir

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Essays and notes — engineering, architecture, AI, and whatever I'm working through.

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QA that reads the database back

A green screen is not a passing feature. Real QA drives the UI, then reads the persisted state back at multiplicity 0/1/N and recomputes the logic against the spec — checking the thing, not the picture of the thing.

3 min read AI & agents
  • AI agents
  • Quality
  • Testing
  • Verification

Implementing a spec in parallel waves

A coding agent works a 12-task spec one task at a time. Most of those tasks don't depend on each other — the work is a graph, not a list. wave-pilot schedules it like one, and gates every wave on a green build.

3 min read AI & agents
  • AI agents
  • Orchestration
  • Parallelism
  • Build systems

The machine that builds my machine

A new dev box used to cost me the better part of a day of yak-shaving. Now a bare Linux install becomes my exact workstation, unattended, in minutes — because the setup is a program, not a checklist.

4 min read Developer experience
  • Automation
  • Linux
  • Reproducibility
  • Tooling

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