Phase 11 just introduced compound assign lowering on submain, pulling +=, -=, *=, /=, and %%= into the IR backend. All in all, 126 new lines in src/ir/lower.rs and three fresh tests. These operators mark their maiden voyage through the IR backend, and while main keeps its 78/78 green tests, submain stays ahead by 22 commits with a 33-day bridge to cross. Commit 9015aff on submain is the sentinel.
More rules should mean better output. That's the intuition. I spent weeks building a comprehensive CLAUDE.md — 200 lines covering naming conventions, security rules, error handling, architectural patterns, import ordering, type safety requirements, and more. I was proud of it. I'd thought through every scenario. Then I scored the output. 79.0 / 100. My carefully crafted documentation was actively
Have you ever looked at code you wrote six months ago and thought: "Who wrote this monster?"? Relax, it happens to all of us. In software engineering, writing code that a machine understands is the easy part. The real challenge is writing code that other humans (including your future self) can understand, maintain, and scale. This is exactly where Software Design Principles come into play. In this
Two sub-packets landed on submain today, moving the IR backend closer to supporting structs properly. The first package upgrades the instruction set to handle memory operations, and the second implements a struct registry integrated into the lowering pass. Together, these changes allow the lowering pass to recognize and manipulate the structs' memory representations, setting the stage for future s
Part 1 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract — what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. SWE-CI tested 18 AI models across 71 consecutive commits. Most broke something on commit 47 they'd already broken on commit 1. That's not an intelligence problem. That's a learning system that isn't learning. A paper made me uncomfortable this month. Not because of what it found about