<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Jack&apos;s Blog</title><description>Blog posts only.</description><link>https://lijack.dev/</link><item><title>I Ran 16 Coding Agents. The Bottleneck Was Me</title><link>https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-1/</guid><description>From Swarm to Protocol, Part 1 of 4 — the common arc: one-shot vibes, plan gates, a sixteen-agent swarm, and the discovery that the bottleneck was the human switchboard.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parallelize Reads, Not Writes</title><link>https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-2/</guid><description>From Swarm to Protocol, Part 2 of 4 — killing the swarm for a cross-model agent pair, meeting correlated errors, and learning to parallelize reads, not writes.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Three Rules for Agent Teams</title><link>https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-3/</guid><description>From Swarm to Protocol, Part 3 of 4 — recursing the pair into an orchestrator team, the delegation failures that followed, and the three rules that held it together.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It&apos;s Not an Engineer. It&apos;s a Prosthesis.</title><link>https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lijack.dev/blog/from-noob-to-pro-part-4/</guid><description>From Swarm to Protocol, Part 4 of 4 — what the machinery costs, what the floor actually catches, and why stripped of the agents it was just engineering all along.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hello World</title><link>https://lijack.dev/blog/hello-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lijack.dev/blog/hello-world/</guid><description>My first blog post on this site.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>