gstack-distilled

Working with AI coding agents — User Sovereignty, agreement-as-signal, Karpathy/Willison framing, per-model overlays, and the rule to measure your prompt nudges.

Estimate work and scope decisions in the AI-coding era. Boil the Lake, AI compression ratios, three-layer search before building.

Compound knowledge across sessions. Plan-tune dual-track psychographic profile (declared vs behavior), retro philosophy that demotes LOC, the keep-or-toss test for learnings.

Code review, debugging, and incident discipline. Confidence calibration, root-cause iron law, alert-on-changes rule, the pre-existing blame protocol.

When to ship vs not ship. The single ship gate, six auto-decision principles for plan reviews, and the Confusion Protocol for when to stop and ask.

UX quality bar — Krug's three laws of usability, the eight DevEx first principles, time-to-hello-world tiers, the Goodwill Reservoir, the Pit of Success.

Decide what to build using YC's six forcing questions and the four CEO scope modes. Use before any new feature, product bet, or GTM angle.