ThoughtCraft

Systems and stories. Frames and questions.

I'm Aaron Holbrook. Maker. Writer. Lifelong learner.

This is my space for exploring how we see, think, and make—whether that means a new idea, a piece of writing, or simply a better way to live.

Aaron Holbrook. Maker, Writer, Lifelong Learner.

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The Negative You Can't Prove

The Negative You Can't Prove

Anthropic reports a perfect zero on the agentic misalignment eval. Going from 96% to zero is real progress, but zero is a strange number to land on — and behavioral testing has a structural limit no methodology fixes.

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Programmatically clear your WP Engine cache

Programmatically clear your WP Engine cache

In my desire to create a better process for building and deploying at Zeek, I recently hit a road bump while trying to perform automatic visual regression testing immediately after deployment.

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Fail Early, Fail Often

Fail Early, Fail Often

Make your code simpler to read and simpler to debug by breaking apart your conditional statements and exiting the function whenever possible.

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Developing With Composer

Developing With Composer

Did you know you can not only use Composer to manage dependencies, but actually develop a package alongside your dependencies?

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