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02Intent as Code is an engineering disciplineThe useful part of AI work is not the chat. It is the intent, boundary, plan and evidence that a team can review before and after a run.retrospective · 2026-08-11 · 7 min 01Intent as Code: why your AI work should be a fileChats evaporate, files compound. The case for writing AI work down as source you own: your best prompts, versioned like code.retrospective · 2026-06-15 · 3 min

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