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Condensing Twenty Years of Wisdom in One Markdown

I've been shipping at a genuinely ridiculous pace lately, and somewhere in there I stopped being an engineer and became the bottleneck in a twenty-person team of AI agents. Don't worry, I am working on unblocking this too. But in the meantime, this is the story of how I started dumping two decades of PostgreSQL scar tissue into a single markdown file that my agents load on demand - the entire file, verbatim, for you to steal. Includes a bonus rant on transaction ID wraparound, the horror almost nobody outside the PG core team and your friendly neighborhood LLM actually understands.

2026.08.18