What do I refuse to ship?

A developer is defined by the tools they use; an engineer is defined by the paradigms they reject.

[x] 7-layer deep LangChain wrapper bloat

[✓] Custom, readable 15-line Python orchestrators

[x] Calling an LLM for basic deterministic RegEx

[✓] Strict native code wherever standard logic permits

[x] 'AI-Washed' thin CRUD API wrappers

[✓] True multi-step, self-correcting agentic reasoning

[x] Heavy 3rd-party component UI libraries

[✓] Zero-layout-shift, brutalist native HTML/Tailwind

[x] Timezone theater & green-dot presence

[✓] High-signal, asynchronous deep work