The Model Changed. My Skill Didn't. The Score Still Dropped.
My rule for evaluating an agent skill is deliberately asymmetric: Test the agent on the weakest model you intend to support. Choose the judg...
Oct 7, 2026
7 min
Keep the Why vs. OKF Agent Memory vs. RepoWise: Three Approaches to Git-Native Project Memory
Three approaches to Git-native project memory for coding agents "Project memory for coding agents" is becoming a broad category. Three proje...
Oct 6, 2026
11 min
The reasoning behind a codebase, as a web you can walk
Open this before you read on: keepthewhy.com/dashboard/live/#graph Give it a few seconds to settle. Then come back. It looks like a knowledg...
Sep 30, 2026
6 min
I Took Laya's "Calibrated RL" Apart. It's Cross-Entropy With Extra Steps.
Laya's README reports a raw ECE of 0.466 on the typed-decisions benchmark before temperature scaling.
Sep 26, 2026
5 min
Inside RLCD: The Estimator, the Proof, and the 30 Runs That Changed My Mind
I went into this expecting the RL to be the interesting part. Laya's whole pitch is that a reinforcement-learning term turns noisy logits in...
Sep 26, 2026
7 min
Session memory is not project memory. It fixes the same complaint.
The most common complaint about coding agents is the same on every forum: a new session starts from nothing. The explanation you gave yester...
Sep 24, 2026
5 min
Keep the Why vs. Claude Code Auto Memory vs. MemoryCustodian vs. AgentsRoom
"Project memory for coding agents" now means at least four different things, and most comparisons put them in one list as if they competed. ...
Sep 23, 2026
10 min
One Index, Many Writers: Avoiding Git Merge Conflicts with Deterministic Write Areas
While working on Keep the Why, I ran into a very ordinary Git problem. There is one shared context/index.md. Developers and coding agents ca...
Sep 21, 2026
3 min
Your repository already is your project's memory. One layer was missing.
Every coding agent starts the day as a goldfish. It can read the code, reason about it, and still have no idea why any of it is the way it i...
Sep 21, 2026
4 min