mostlylucid.net - Scott Galloway's Developer Blog

Towards 1.0: Making Umami.NET Production Ready

When I first integrated Umami analytics into my blog platform, I quickly ran into a frustrating reality: Umami's API documentation is... let's be charitable and call it "minimal." Error messages are...

Thursday, 20 November 2025 14:30

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10 minute read

AI as Disciplined Software: “I Think I Should Leave”

AI Development Software Engineering

Evolving AI Workflows and the Drive to Simplicity Fancy paying me to turn this into a proper product? Drop me a line: scott.galloway+[email protected] The Thought That Started Everything Why does a human...

Wednesday, 19 November 2025 18:00

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31 minute read

How I Build Software: Make It Work, Make It Pretty, Lock It Down

Best Practices Craftsmanship Software Development TDD Testing

Why I write tests last, and why that's not what you think it means Controversial take: Test-Driven Development is a brilliant practice that solves the wrong problem for most creative work. Here's what...

Wednesday, 19 November 2025 10:00

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28 minute read

Semantic Intelligence: Part 10 - The DiSE Cooker: When Tools Cook Themselves Into Workflows

AI AI-Article DiSE Cooker mostlylucid-dse Self-Optimization Tool Composition Workflow Evolution

The finale of the Semantic Memory series. The beginning of something stranger. Note: This is Part 10—the last in the Semantic Memory series and the first in the DiSE Cooker series. We're moving from...

Wednesday, 19 November 2025 09:00

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27 minute read

Semantic Intelligence: Part 9 - Self-Healing Tools Through Lineage-Aware Pruning

AI AI-Article Lineage Tracking Python Self-Healing Systems Tool Evolution

When your tools break themselves, your system should remember why and never repeat the mistake When *DiSE commits murder. <img...

Tuesday, 18 November 2025 09:00

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30 minute read

Cooking with DiSE (Part 2): Graduated Apprenticeships - Training Workflows to Run Without a Safety Net

AI AI-Article Apprenticeship Pattern Cost Optimization DiSE Self-Monitoring Workflow Evolution

When your workflows learn to walk without training wheels (and you stop paying for babysitters) Note: This is Part 2 in the "Cooking with DiSE" series, exploring practical patterns for...

Tuesday, 18 November 2025 09:00

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25 minute read

Semantic Intelligence: Part 8 - Tools All The Way Down: The Self-Optimizing Toolkit

AI AI-Article Evolution mostlylucid-dse RAG Memory Tools Usage Tracking

When your tools track themselves, evolve themselves, and choose themselves Note: This is Part 8 in the Semantic Intelligence series. Part 7 covered the overall DSE architecture. This article dives...

Sunday, 16 November 2025 14:00

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39 minute read

Semantic Intelligence: Part 7 - The Real Thing! Experimenting with Directed Synthetic Evolution

AI AI-Article Code Generation Emergent Intelligence Evolution mostlylucid-dse Multi-Agent Systems

When theory meets reality and code starts evolving itself Note: Inspired by thinking about extensions to mostlylucid.mockllmapi and material for the (never to be released but I like to think about it...

Saturday, 15 November 2025 13:00

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55 minute read

Semantic Intelligence: Part 6 - Directed Synthetic Evolution and Global Consensus

AI AI-Article Emergent Intelligence Geopolitics Multi-Agent Systems

When optimization systems develop diplomacy Note: Inspired by thinking about extensions to mostlylucid.mockllmapi and material for the (never to be released but I like to think about it 😜) sci-fi...

Friday, 14 November 2025 16:00

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24 minute read

Semantic Intelligence: Part 5 - Evolution - From Optimization to Emergent Guilds

AI AI-Article Emergent Intelligence Multi-Agent Systems

When optimization systems develop culture Note: Inspired by thinking about extensions to mostlylucid.mockllmapi and material for the (never to be released but I like to think about it 😜) sci-fi novel...

Friday, 14 November 2025 13:00

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14 minute read