# Method

Author: Emanuele Russo
Source: https://emanuelegrusso.com/method

## Building

A tool starts when something annoys me for long enough. Before any code exists I write down what it should do and where it stops, because the AI agents I build with are biased towards doing: give them a vague task and they finish the wrong thing quickly.

Then the agents build, often several at once, and I check what comes back against what I wrote down, not against how sure it sounds.

Before a repository goes public, [publishable](https://github.com/ABCastor/publishable) reads its whole history for personal data. Then it goes on GitHub, under [my name](https://github.com/Anneo22) or [Castor's](https://github.com/ABCastor).

## Writing

A piece starts as a note in my own notes, sometimes months before it is an essay. Buying Surprise was a note in August and went up in October.

Here each piece is one plain text file. Footnotes become notes in the margin on a wide screen, and the Contents comes from the piece's own sections.

## This site

Every change is built as options side by side, checked on a phone and a desktop, in light and dark, and only the one I pick goes live.

The way links draw their line and the Contents beside an article come from [Castor's site](https://abcastor.com), which I designed. No tracking, no cookies.