07 MAR 2026
David's approach: dont make code changes yet can mean go deeper
when the system is confusing, David often pause implementation and force investigation first.
some of his strongest instructions to agents are not "build this now." they are "do not make code changes yet." that usually happens when the assistant is about to patch a symptom without understanding the system.
in Kerra production incidents, David asked agents to inspect AWS logs, database rows, prompts, tool calls, exact run IDs, frontend state, and deployment history before writing code.
dont make code changes yet
dont postulate or guess or estimate
the distinction matters for this profile: David does want agents to be autonomous, but not autonomously sloppy. read-only investigation is part of execution when the blast radius is high.