Ken Judy
@kenjudy.bsky.social
Father, husband, technologist, advisor, coach. Interested in sustainability, responsible use of technology, and renewables.
Claude code, perhaps because of its instructions and execution logic to reduce token usage, declares premature victory. You need to have transparency into its plan so you can interrogate any claim of completeness 🎉. “What about…” Also, check back on the goal. “Does this…”
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Claude code, perhaps because of its instructions and execution logic to reduce token usage, declares premature victory. You need to have transparency into its plan so you can interrogate any claim of completeness 🎉. “What about…” Also, check back on the goal. “Does this…”
Lying in bed with flu watching a cozy murder mystery. It ends. I can’t find the remote. Antiques roadshow comes on. Cozy is a fragile crust and I have fallen through. I stare into this abyss. It calls out my name. I am shook.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Lying in bed with flu watching a cozy murder mystery. It ends. I can’t find the remote. Antiques roadshow comes on. Cozy is a fragile crust and I have fallen through. I stare into this abyss. It calls out my name. I am shook.
I created a build script to load my Plan-Do-Check-Act coding cycle as a Claude Skill. This reduces the token use by making the prompts automatically available in claude sessions. You can find it licensed under creative commons here: github.com/kenjudy/pdca...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I created a build script to load my Plan-Do-Check-Act coding cycle as a Claude Skill. This reduces the token use by making the prompts automatically available in claude sessions. You can find it licensed under creative commons here: github.com/kenjudy/pdca...
Invest craft into what you do. Try to achieve some positive impact with it. Be mindful of the harm. Seek out people who do the same regardless of what they do.
An imperfect but achievable path to meaningful work.
An imperfect but achievable path to meaningful work.
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Invest craft into what you do. Try to achieve some positive impact with it. Be mindful of the harm. Seek out people who do the same regardless of what they do.
An imperfect but achievable path to meaningful work.
An imperfect but achievable path to meaningful work.
Slight nip. Fallen leaves. Gusts whipping the trees. The youngest of trick or treaters foraging stoop to stoop for candy. The sun still bright. Illuminating the clouds. Emitting its promise to shine forever.
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Slight nip. Fallen leaves. Gusts whipping the trees. The youngest of trick or treaters foraging stoop to stoop for candy. The sun still bright. Illuminating the clouds. Emitting its promise to shine forever.
There’s a specific aggression/indifference that comes with riding the 4 train. His hand keeps sliding down the pole into my hand. Her hand keeps fidgeting up the pole into my hand. I give up and move my hand to safety, standing there like a flying buttress to the crown heights bound cathedral.
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
There’s a specific aggression/indifference that comes with riding the 4 train. His hand keeps sliding down the pole into my hand. Her hand keeps fidgeting up the pole into my hand. I give up and move my hand to safety, standing there like a flying buttress to the crown heights bound cathedral.
Forgot how expensive gpt-5 reasoning models are. My learning today is don’t let someone stick you with a reasoning model for an agent framework implementation until standard models don’t cut it. langgraph with gpt-5-mini, 30s response. With gpt-4o-mini, 9s response.
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Forgot how expensive gpt-5 reasoning models are. My learning today is don’t let someone stick you with a reasoning model for an agent framework implementation until standard models don’t cut it. langgraph with gpt-5-mini, 30s response. With gpt-4o-mini, 9s response.
In switching to claude code, I've started asking the agent to write out its plan to a markdown file so that it persists. Then when I ask it to do a completeness check we have the same information and I ask it to plan out the gaps it finds as a second change document.
October 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In switching to claude code, I've started asking the agent to write out its plan to a markdown file so that it persists. Then when I ask it to do a completeness check we have the same information and I ask it to plan out the gaps it finds as a second change document.
My writeup on my plan-do-check-act amAI coding practice is live on InfoQ.
It works well with plan mode. In fact, it anticipated it.
And retrospection is alive and well!
I provide links to prompts and code metrics github actions.
It works well with plan mode. In fact, it anticipated it.
And retrospection is alive and well!
I provide links to prompts and code metrics github actions.
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My writeup on my plan-do-check-act amAI coding practice is live on InfoQ.
It works well with plan mode. In fact, it anticipated it.
And retrospection is alive and well!
I provide links to prompts and code metrics github actions.
It works well with plan mode. In fact, it anticipated it.
And retrospection is alive and well!
I provide links to prompts and code metrics github actions.
Our daughter is off to Ireland for a year hopefully to find work and more of her self. The best things - the things you wish for at night before you fall asleep - the things you work decades to make possible - arrive with both joy and sadness. This is life.
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our daughter is off to Ireland for a year hopefully to find work and more of her self. The best things - the things you wish for at night before you fall asleep - the things you work decades to make possible - arrive with both joy and sadness. This is life.
I'm sitting in a co-work space working, contemplating life, and listening to Tosca sing out her feelings in Italian.
October 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm sitting in a co-work space working, contemplating life, and listening to Tosca sing out her feelings in Italian.
Guy in train with a full on 19th century brass deep diving helmet. Not going to comiccon as far as I can tell. Love NY
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Guy in train with a full on 19th century brass deep diving helmet. Not going to comiccon as far as I can tell. Love NY
Coding intensely to get in my hours in while making time for my last NY ComicCon with my daughter for a bit as she adults. I can't think of a better soundtrack to the day than Wagner's Ring Cycle.
October 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Coding intensely to get in my hours in while making time for my last NY ComicCon with my daughter for a bit as she adults. I can't think of a better soundtrack to the day than Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Why is “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” rolling around in my head this morning? And why do I misremember the lyrics so dark? “You better not go in the woods tonight…” 🎶 🧸🌙😱
October 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Why is “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” rolling around in my head this morning? And why do I misremember the lyrics so dark? “You better not go in the woods tonight…” 🎶 🧸🌙😱
Advice? My daughter is moving to the Irish Republic on a visa that allows her to work.
She's a recent graduate of Worcester Polytech in Robotics Engineering. If anyone out there has ideas on where she might look for engineering related work, technical design and drafting, please DM me!
She's a recent graduate of Worcester Polytech in Robotics Engineering. If anyone out there has ideas on where she might look for engineering related work, technical design and drafting, please DM me!
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Advice? My daughter is moving to the Irish Republic on a visa that allows her to work.
She's a recent graduate of Worcester Polytech in Robotics Engineering. If anyone out there has ideas on where she might look for engineering related work, technical design and drafting, please DM me!
She's a recent graduate of Worcester Polytech in Robotics Engineering. If anyone out there has ideas on where she might look for engineering related work, technical design and drafting, please DM me!
My learning mindset is driven by humility about my depth of understanding, which extends borderlessly into self-reproach. They are an inseparable essence. One gift.
October 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My learning mindset is driven by humility about my depth of understanding, which extends borderlessly into self-reproach. They are an inseparable essence. One gift.
Crossing the entire length of a train station to dispose of my cup in the same shop I purchased the coffee because intruding into a restaurant I haven’t bought something at feels wrong and due to darker moments in recent history there are almost no public trash cans.
September 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Crossing the entire length of a train station to dispose of my cup in the same shop I purchased the coffee because intruding into a restaurant I haven’t bought something at feels wrong and due to darker moments in recent history there are almost no public trash cans.
My mom’s tradition was to serve unagi (eel) on rice on the hottest day of the year. So, whatever summer day we had it she willed to be the hottest day. Japanese women have that force of will. At least, my mom did.
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My mom’s tradition was to serve unagi (eel) on rice on the hottest day of the year. So, whatever summer day we had it she willed to be the hottest day. Japanese women have that force of will. At least, my mom did.
What’s a more appropriate arrival in Tokyo than making my way from Haneda airport on a crowded train with a stranger falling asleep on my shoulder.
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What’s a more appropriate arrival in Tokyo than making my way from Haneda airport on a crowded train with a stranger falling asleep on my shoulder.
“Please check carry on items for fire arms before approaching the checkpoint…” — JFK announcement
September 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Please check carry on items for fire arms before approaching the checkpoint…” — JFK announcement
If large language models don’t improve in reasoning, there’s plenty of improvement to be gained in more precise context, additional tooling, reduced computes, increased privacy, local operation, permissively and ethically sourced training data, access, and our fluency using them.
September 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If large language models don’t improve in reasoning, there’s plenty of improvement to be gained in more precise context, additional tooling, reduced computes, increased privacy, local operation, permissively and ethically sourced training data, access, and our fluency using them.
The average US male lives to 75. The average US software developer is under 40 — tailing well off by my age. But I am not average. No human is. While much is out of my control. Some is. So, I strive to keep learning, accomplish interesting things, stay grateful, and embrace hope.
August 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The average US male lives to 75. The average US software developer is under 40 — tailing well off by my age. But I am not average. No human is. While much is out of my control. Some is. So, I strive to keep learning, accomplish interesting things, stay grateful, and embrace hope.
Studying conversational Japanese prior to my hike along the temple trail next month. Forgiving myself for never learning my mother’s native language while she was alive. I didn’t try until I was a teen. She spoke a very formal style, was proud, and I felt shame easily. It all makes sense.
August 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Studying conversational Japanese prior to my hike along the temple trail next month. Forgiving myself for never learning my mother’s native language while she was alive. I didn’t try until I was a teen. She spoke a very formal style, was proud, and I felt shame easily. It all makes sense.
We're letting hype compromise our professional integrity. AI makes devs feel productive, but data shows 10x increase in duplicated code, copy/paste exceeding refactoring for first time ever. I'm proposing a PDCA framework to wrangle AI away from debt generator: agilealliance.org/reducing-ai-...
Reducing AI code debt: A human-supervised PDCA framework for sustainable development | Agile Alliance
Research reveals AI code generation creates a 10x increase in duplicated code and technical debt. Discover how Agile practitioners can solve this sustainability crisis with a proven PDCA framework.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We're letting hype compromise our professional integrity. AI makes devs feel productive, but data shows 10x increase in duplicated code, copy/paste exceeding refactoring for first time ever. I'm proposing a PDCA framework to wrangle AI away from debt generator: agilealliance.org/reducing-ai-...
My post proposing a structured plan-do-check-act prompting cycle in code generation was featured in the agile alliance newsletter.
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My post proposing a structured plan-do-check-act prompting cycle in code generation was featured in the agile alliance newsletter.