The Silent Critic
The article discusses the author's experiences with using advanced coding models over the past year. It highlights the evolving nature of coding practices and the challenges posed by the limitations of current tools. The author introduces a new tool called 'The Silent Critic' aimed at addressing these challenges in software development.
- ▪The author has been using advanced coding models for nearly a year, leading to changes in their coding practices.
- ▪They emphasize the growing gap between the capabilities of these models and existing systems for managing coding context.
- ▪The author has created a new tool called 'The Silent Critic' to help navigate the complexities of modern software development.
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The Silent Critic blog May 28, 2026 Like most folks, I’ve been using The Models 1 to write code now for the better part of a year. My process has changed over the course of the last few months, partly because the models are getting better at executing on the tasks I set them, but mostly because the gap between what the models enable and the systems for controlling context we all live in is growing, and growing at an ever-increasing rate. If you read my earlier musings, you get a sense of my theory about what’s happening. Our intuitions and practices put together over the last couple of decades, when code was expensive relative to human attention, no longer fit the bill.
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