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Bri Stanback
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In-progress thinking — ideas I'm still working out.
2026
March 14
The Frontend Testing Gap
Backend testing is a solved problem. Frontend testing for stateful, streaming, visual UIs is not. That's exactly where AI coding agents are generating the most code.
March 10
I Don't Know How to Interview Engineers Anymore
What interviewing looks like when AI can write the code but not make the call — and why the same break is happening in every field that used output as proof of understanding.
March 1
Trails: A Pattern for Navigating Ideas
Why I replaced a knowledge graph with curated reading paths, and what I found when I looked for prior art.
February 26
Toward AI-Native Analytics for Personal Publishing
An RFC for a small, legible analytics system — privacy-first, edge-native, AI-queryable — built on Cloudflare Workers.
February 9
Learning to Take Up Space
On the difference between disappearing and controlling — and the third thing that isn't either.
February 7
Building at the Speed of Thought
When execution is nearly free, iteration replaces deliberation. That's the real shift.
February 7
Photography After AI
What's the value of photography when AI generates pixel-perfect images in seconds? The same thing that's valuable about code when AI writes it: not the output, but the seeing.
February 7
Memory and Journals
AI agents have perfect memory within a conversation and total amnesia between them. What can human journaling teach us about what memory should actually be?
February 6
The Funeral Test for Your Digital Self
From Covey's funeral visualization to company codexes to personal test harnesses — the throughline is intentional identity.
February 6
Rent a Human
A marketplace where AI agents hire humans for physical tasks. The inversion is here.
February 3
Working With AI
How I think with AI, where I don't trust it, and what co-authorship means.