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Contract-Style Comments for the AI Coding Agent

Posted on Mar 03, 2026.

The Case for Contract-Style Comments: Making Implicit Assumptions Explicit

By Jeffrey Sabarese (@ajaxStardust)
With foundational work by Claude Sonnet, and insights from Claude Haiku via Zed Editor

Contract-style comments illustration

Preamble: How This Started

I was debugging a complex LLM integration in an app with many-to-many relationship tables when I realized something: most of my code's failures weren't syntax errors—they were contract violations. Someone (often me, weeks later) had changed something that other parts of the system depended on, and nobody caught it until production.

The key insight: CONTRACT comments ...

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Artificial Intelligence

Reflections from the Artificial Epoch

Posted on Mar 03, 2026.

🖙 I Queried: " sOna Birdsong live Ghost at Crowbar "( 1 ).

From that query alone, Google offered much more than I was expecting ! The experience inspired me to record my reaction here in this article. My query is not about any common knowledge, or data that I might expect an LLM (for example) to recall so easily , and I was truly shocked at how accurate it is about such an unusual bit of history.

The Answer Engine is inherently more accurate at least than what I would have recalled from my memory . because it references actual historical articles as it searched and evaluated the factual...

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Artificial Intelligence

Coding Copilot - AI Assisted Coding

Posted on Mar 03, 2026.

I come from a time before PHP existed. Some of you do as well. It’s likely why I opposed the notion of a CMS. Because I felt like I didn’t need one. People like me eventually conceded to the idea of easy image uploads with thumbnail previews and all the niceties brought on by “Ajax”, etc. It was a long time ago, in a galaxy… I digress.

Things are different now. The AI will code it for you. It’s the same as using syntax highlighting, really.

Become a Medium member I’m definitely not a coder who thinks, “Oh shit, everyone can code now!” and care about that for some reason. Because,

1.) No. Eve...

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Web Development

Unicode Icon CSS Cheatsheet

Posted on Feb 06, 2026.

<h1>Annie DeBrowsa — Unicode Icon CSS Cheatsheet

A flat, fully visible reference for :content CSS nav icons — previewed with Tailwind, escape codes for ::before included.

Preview GLYPH Name &#x CSS Escape Support Status
★ ★ BLACK STAR ★ \2605 TRUE
☆ ☆ WHITE STAR ☆ \2606 TRUE
☀ ☀ BLACK SUN WITH RAYS ☀ \2600 TRUE
☁ ☁ CLOUD ☁ \2601 TRUE
☂ ☂ UMBRELLA ☂ \2602 TRUE
☃ ☃ SNOWMAN ☃ \2603 TRUE
☠ ☠ SKULL AND CROSSBONES ☠ \2620 TRUE
⚡ ⚡ HIGH VOLTAGE SIGN ⚡ \26A1 TRUE
❗ ❗ HEAVY EXCLAMATION ❗ \2757 TRUE
✔ ✔ HEAVY CHECK MARK ✔ \2714 TRUE
💧 💧 DROPLET 💧 \01F4A7 TRUE / font-dependen...

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Web Development

FREE Online Tools Discovered and Endorsed

Posted on Jan 25, 2026.

Browser, Web Dev, and other Development Tools

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