April 15, 2026 at 8:04 AM
This is what "Tillage builds Tillage" actually means.
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
This is what "Tillage builds Tillage" actually means.
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
One tiller to route them all. Built the same way as every other tiller — validate, heartbeat, call, callback.
The pipeline eating its own patterns. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The pipeline eating its own patterns. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 25, 2026 at 9:04 AM
One tiller to route them all. Built the same way as every other tiller — validate, heartbeat, call, callback.
The pipeline eating its own patterns. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The pipeline eating its own patterns. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Everyone's vibe coding. I can't do it. I've been a software engineer for 19 years, and "ship it and pray" is not a workflow. So I'm building Tillage: a pipeline that codes, reviews, adjudicates, reflects, and only lets work through when it's actually right. Day 1.
#JustTillIt
#JustTillIt
March 21, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Everyone's vibe coding. I can't do it. I've been a software engineer for 19 years, and "ship it and pray" is not a workflow. So I'm building Tillage: a pipeline that codes, reviews, adjudicates, reflects, and only lets work through when it's actually right. Day 1.
#JustTillIt
#JustTillIt
SigNoz v0.120.0. One container. ClickHouse backend. Traces visible the same day it was deployed.
No agents sending data to someone else's cloud.
Self-hosted all the way down. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
No agents sending data to someone else's cloud.
Self-hosted all the way down. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM
SigNoz v0.120.0. One container. ClickHouse backend. Traces visible the same day it was deployed.
No agents sending data to someone else's cloud.
Self-hosted all the way down. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
No agents sending data to someone else's cloud.
Self-hosted all the way down. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The pipeline gets better every run.
Every tiller reflects after completing a task. Rework rate is tracked. Context injection improves over time.
Day 1 it's cautious. Month 3 it's earning trust.
Still building. Building it with itself.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Every tiller reflects after completing a task. Rework rate is tracked. Context injection improves over time.
Day 1 it's cautious. Month 3 it's earning trust.
Still building. Building it with itself.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
The pipeline gets better every run.
Every tiller reflects after completing a task. Rework rate is tracked. Context injection improves over time.
Day 1 it's cautious. Month 3 it's earning trust.
Still building. Building it with itself.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Every tiller reflects after completing a task. Rework rate is tracked. Context injection improves over time.
Day 1 it's cautious. Month 3 it's earning trust.
Still building. Building it with itself.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
This is what V1 is supposed to prove: Tillage can build itself.
The feature that ships features — built through its own pipeline.
One till at a time, until the tool is done. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The feature that ships features — built through its own pipeline.
One till at a time, until the tool is done. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 12, 2026 at 9:04 AM
This is what V1 is supposed to prove: Tillage can build itself.
The feature that ships features — built through its own pipeline.
One till at a time, until the tool is done. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The feature that ships features — built through its own pipeline.
One till at a time, until the tool is done. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Names matter. Not for aesthetics — because you read them a hundred times a day.
When the code says what you mean, the reading gets cleaner. The decisions get sharper.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
When the code says what you mean, the reading gets cleaner. The decisions get sharper.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 22, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Names matter. Not for aesthetics — because you read them a hundred times a day.
When the code says what you mean, the reading gets cleaner. The decisions get sharper.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
When the code says what you mean, the reading gets cleaner. The decisions get sharper.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
When the score crosses your threshold — you auto-approve.
Not on day one. After it's proved it.
Trust is a score. Not a setting.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Not on day one. After it's proved it.
Trust is a score. Not a setting.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 21, 2026 at 11:02 AM
When the score crosses your threshold — you auto-approve.
Not on day one. After it's proved it.
Trust is a score. Not a setting.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Not on day one. After it's proved it.
Trust is a score. Not a setting.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The pipeline is building its own interface.
That was always the point of V1 — prove the chain works by running Tillage through itself.
It's working. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
That was always the point of V1 — prove the chain works by running Tillage through itself.
It's working. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
The pipeline is building its own interface.
That was always the point of V1 — prove the chain works by running Tillage through itself.
It's working. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
That was always the point of V1 — prove the chain works by running Tillage through itself.
It's working. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Tillage embeds everything into pgvector. At dispatch time, it retrieves the top chunks semantically similar to the task.
The tiller arrives informed — not overwhelmed.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The tiller arrives informed — not overwhelmed.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 21, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Tillage embeds everything into pgvector. At dispatch time, it retrieves the top chunks semantically similar to the task.
The tiller arrives informed — not overwhelmed.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The tiller arrives informed — not overwhelmed.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
That's the decomposition chain doing its job.
Hand an AI "build the orchestrator" → noise.
Hand it one till → working state machine.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Hand an AI "build the orchestrator" → noise.
Hand it one till → working state machine.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 19, 2026 at 11:04 AM
That's the decomposition chain doing its job.
Hand an AI "build the orchestrator" → noise.
Hand it one till → working state machine.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Hand an AI "build the orchestrator" → noise.
Hand it one till → working state machine.
Till it right. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Now it’s in ready_for_operator_review.
The pipeline stops here. Not because it failed — because a human has to say yes.
That’s the design. That’s the whole point. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The pipeline stops here. Not because it failed — because a human has to say yes.
That’s the design. That’s the whole point. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 26, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Now it’s in ready_for_operator_review.
The pipeline stops here. Not because it failed — because a human has to say yes.
That’s the design. That’s the whole point. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The pipeline stops here. Not because it failed — because a human has to say yes.
That’s the design. That’s the whole point. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Also today: dropped rework_count from the schema entirely.
Turned out real pipeline runs don't need it the way we thought.
The system telling you what it actually needs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Turned out real pipeline runs don't need it the way we thought.
The system telling you what it actually needs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 30, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Also today: dropped rework_count from the schema entirely.
Turned out real pipeline runs don't need it the way we thought.
The system telling you what it actually needs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Turned out real pipeline runs don't need it the way we thought.
The system telling you what it actually needs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Fixed: acceptance criteria only. No spec. No snippets. Inverted prompt order — feedback first, then constraints. Added --max-turns to stop it rewriting everything from scratch.
Less context, better repairs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Less context, better repairs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Fixed: acceptance criteria only. No spec. No snippets. Inverted prompt order — feedback first, then constraints. Added --max-turns to stop it rewriting everything from scratch.
Less context, better repairs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Less context, better repairs. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Fix: a dispatch outbox table. State transition and outbox write happen in the same transaction.
A separate process drains it. The dispatch only happens if the state commit landed. Crash-safe. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
A separate process drains it. The dispatch only happens if the state commit landed. Crash-safe. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Fix: a dispatch outbox table. State transition and outbox write happen in the same transaction.
A separate process drains it. The dispatch only happens if the state commit landed. Crash-safe. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
A separate process drains it. The dispatch only happens if the state commit landed. Crash-safe. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
"Shipped" and "working" are not the same thing.
The router runs now. Contracts bumped twice. 709 tests pass.
That gap between green tests and live behavior? That's just the cost. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The router runs now. Contracts bumped twice. 709 tests pass.
That gap between green tests and live behavior? That's just the cost. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 29, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"Shipped" and "working" are not the same thing.
The router runs now. Contracts bumped twice. 709 tests pass.
That gap between green tests and live behavior? That's just the cost. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The router runs now. Contracts bumped twice. 709 tests pass.
That gap between green tests and live behavior? That's just the cost. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
That means a tiller now arrives at a real Gitea branch with its own scoped token — not a simulation.
And when the run closes: token revoked, branch tracked, credentials wiped.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
And when the run closes: token revoked, branch tracked, credentials wiped.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 24, 2026 at 9:02 AM
That means a tiller now arrives at a real Gitea branch with its own scoped token — not a simulation.
And when the run closes: token revoked, branch tracked, credentials wiped.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
And when the run closes: token revoked, branch tracked, credentials wiped.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
This is what "Tillage builds Tillage" actually means.
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 19, 2026 at 9:04 AM
This is what "Tillage builds Tillage" actually means.
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept.
The schema that the next tiller runs against was shaped by the last one.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Fully autonomous AI coding sounds good until it confidently implements the wrong thing for 3 hours.
Human gates aren't a limitation.
They're the product.
You set the policy. Tillage enforces it.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Human gates aren't a limitation.
They're the product.
You set the policy. Tillage enforces it.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Fully autonomous AI coding sounds good until it confidently implements the wrong thing for 3 hours.
Human gates aren't a limitation.
They're the product.
You set the policy. Tillage enforces it.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Human gates aren't a limitation.
They're the product.
You set the policy. Tillage enforces it.
#JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Every handler now writes a callback_rejected audit log entry before moving on.
Small change. But now when something goes wrong, there's a record of it.
You can't fix what you can't see. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Small change. But now when something goes wrong, there's a record of it.
You can't fix what you can't see. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Every handler now writes a callback_rejected audit log entry before moving on.
Small change. But now when something goes wrong, there's a record of it.
You can't fix what you can't see. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
Small change. But now when something goes wrong, there's a record of it.
You can't fix what you can't see. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
April 18, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Code review has a defined output: findings, severity, gate pass/fail.
If that contract is stable, the model is a plug.
Tillers aren't tied to one AI provider. They're tied to a task schema.
That's the abstraction worth keeping. #JustTillIt #indiedev
If that contract is stable, the model is a plug.
Tillers aren't tied to one AI provider. They're tied to a task schema.
That's the abstraction worth keeping. #JustTillIt #indiedev
May 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Code review has a defined output: findings, severity, gate pass/fail.
If that contract is stable, the model is a plug.
Tillers aren't tied to one AI provider. They're tied to a task schema.
That's the abstraction worth keeping. #JustTillIt #indiedev
If that contract is stable, the model is a plug.
Tillers aren't tied to one AI provider. They're tied to a task schema.
That's the abstraction worth keeping. #JustTillIt #indiedev
Every tiller shares the same contract: validate the payload, send a heartbeat, do the work, post the callback.
The scaffold is the base. The specialisation is the logic on top.
That's how forking a new tiller takes hours, not weeks. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The scaffold is the base. The specialisation is the logic on top.
That's how forking a new tiller takes hours, not weeks. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Every tiller shares the same contract: validate the payload, send a heartbeat, do the work, post the callback.
The scaffold is the base. The specialisation is the logic on top.
That's how forking a new tiller takes hours, not weeks. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
The scaffold is the base. The specialisation is the logic on top.
That's how forking a new tiller takes hours, not weeks. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
10 PRs yesterday. Didn't stop.
PR #12 merged today. ESLint clean across the whole codebase — the gate-tiller caught everything.
12 tills. 12 PRs. The GUI is being built. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
PR #12 merged today. ESLint clean across the whole codebase — the gate-tiller caught everything.
12 tills. 12 PRs. The GUI is being built. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
May 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
10 PRs yesterday. Didn't stop.
PR #12 merged today. ESLint clean across the whole codebase — the gate-tiller caught everything.
12 tills. 12 PRs. The GUI is being built. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic
PR #12 merged today. ESLint clean across the whole codebase — the gate-tiller caught everything.
12 tills. 12 PRs. The GUI is being built. #JustTillIt #buildinpublic