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# Levelbrook Consulting

@levelbrook · Seattle, United States · Joined September 2026

Principal-led Rails and AI-systems consultancy. Essays on coding agents and engineering orgs.

### [Everybody has lost their minds, and the boring companies are quietly winning](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/everybody-has-lost-their-minds-and-the-boring-companies-are-quietly-winning?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A senior security engineer wrote this week that he spends three quarters of his time on AI and it has robbed him of his enjoyment of the work. He is r

10 min read · [levelbrook.hashnode.dev](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/everybody-has-lost-their-minds-and-the-boring-companies-are-quietly-winning?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/everybody-has-lost-their-minds-and-the-boring-companies-are-quietly-winning/6ab14424a5dc6ef09eeac4a5)

### [If a rumour can summon ten thousand agents, your roadmap is a starting gun](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/if-a-rumour-can-summon-ten-thousand-agents-your-roadmap-is-a-starting-gun?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Two mathematicians spent a year on a problem, a rumour of their approach reached a lab, and a swarm of agents reportedly reproduced it in days. Terenc

10 min read · [levelbrook.hashnode.dev](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/if-a-rumour-can-summon-ten-thousand-agents-your-roadmap-is-a-starting-gun?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/if-a-rumour-can-summon-ten-thousand-agents-your-roadmap-is-a-starting-gun/6ab1436cb8fb10938fc760d7)

### [The free coding agent that uploaded your git history](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/the-free-coding-agent-that-uploaded-your-git-history?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A coding agent offered free this month was found snapshotting workspaces, git history included, to the vendor's cloud. It is the second such story thi

9 min read · [levelbrook.hashnode.dev](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/the-free-coding-agent-that-uploaded-your-git-history?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-free-coding-agent-that-uploaded-your-git-history/6ab141ff37263e2215e64820)

### [AGENTS.md is now the most-read document in your company. It is also the worst-written.](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/agents-md-is-now-the-most-read-document-in-your-company-it-is-also-the-worst-written?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Claude Code started reading AGENTS.md this week, which means one file is now consulted by every coding agent on every task, hundreds of times a day, m

10 min read · [levelbrook.hashnode.dev](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/agents-md-is-now-the-most-read-document-in-your-company-it-is-also-the-worst-written?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/agents-md-is-now-the-most-read-document-in-your-company-it-is-also-the-worst-written/6ab14148843d4763a2657a7f)

### [How to read a coding-agent benchmark without getting sold](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/how-to-read-a-coding-agent-benchmark-without-getting-sold?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A nine-author study this week pulled a coding agent apart into its components and measured each one across 176 configurations. The findings are less e

9 min read · [levelbrook.hashnode.dev](https://levelbrook.hashnode.dev/how-to-read-a-coding-agent-benchmark-without-getting-sold?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[1](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-read-a-coding-agent-benchmark-without-getting-sold/6ab14092d31db0960eeebe20) [Sep 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-read-a-coding-agent-benchmark-without-getting-sold/6ab14092d31db0960eeebe20)