Last week I posted that I had no code, just the work that makes the code possible. The PRD, the prompt spec, the architecture doc, the build brief for Kiro. I went into this week thinking I had every decision pre-made. Then I started building. By Block 2, real testing surfaced a phrase the model was using that no court employee would say. "Strip identifiers" sounds reasonable to a developer. To a
A few years ago I solved 200 LeetCode problems and still froze on Mediums I hadn't seen. The breakthrough wasn't another hundred problems. It was a different loop. A problem asks for the longest substring with at most K distinct characters. You've solved sliding window before. Maximum sum subarray of size K, done. Longest substring without repeating characters, done. This third one stalls you. Twe