Engineering notes from building OpenOrc.https://openorc.dev/https://openorc.dev/notes/a-group-chat-is-not-an-engineering-workflow/https://openorc.dev/notes/a-group-chat-is-not-an-engineering-workflow/Slack Code makes AI-assisted coding collaborative. OpenOrc takes a contract-driven approach to autonomous engineering.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/stop-sharing-context-between-ai-agents-start-sharing-contracts/https://openorc.dev/notes/stop-sharing-context-between-ai-agents-start-sharing-contracts/How we're building an AI-native engineering workflow around specialized roles, durable knowledge, independent review, and human accountability.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/agents-md-at-scale/https://openorc.dev/notes/agents-md-at-scale/How to structure nested AGENTS.md files so coding agents respect architectural boundaries, run the right tests, and avoid unnecessary context.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/danger-of-losing-focus/https://openorc.dev/notes/danger-of-losing-focus/How a chain of reasonable infrastructure decisions nearly pulled OpenOrc away from its actual objective, and why architectural boundaries matter before the compiler can see them.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/stop-managing-ai-agents-like-employees/https://openorc.dev/notes/stop-managing-ai-agents-like-employees/AI agents can perform remarkable amounts of engineering work without becoming employees. OpenOrc keeps agent provenance inside the workflow while leaving accountability with the human engineer.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/why-ai-review-needs-a-stopping-rule/https://openorc.dev/notes/why-ai-review-needs-a-stopping-rule/Independent AI review catches real engineering mistakes. It can also keep inventing increasingly remote reasons not to approve the work. A useful Reviewer needs an explicit definition of good enough.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/account-deletion-100-million-tokens/https://openorc.dev/notes/account-deletion-100-million-tokens/A seemingly ordinary OpenOrc backend task consumed more than 100 million Cline tokens. The interesting part was not the number, but the engineering and inference economics hidden behind the issue title.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://openorc.dev/notes/openorc-started-as-copy-and-paste-between-two-ai-models/https://openorc.dev/notes/openorc-started-as-copy-and-paste-between-two-ai-models/The producer-reviewer workflow behind OpenOrc began as a manual loop between two independent AI systems that consistently produced better software together than either did alone.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT