Optimizing /start: The Fifteen-Step State Machine

How a 1,400-line markdown workflow got faster by doing less defensive work. Parallel fetching, conditional tasks, and inline plans for simple tickets.

March 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM · 9 min · Brad Feld

Optimizing /commit for One Million Tokens

The 1M context window turned /commit's bottleneck from context pressure to wall-clock time. Six optimizations cut 55-85 seconds from every commit.

March 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM · 8 min · Brad Feld