Dan Denney — Yesterday I LearnedDaily captures turned into landing pages — AI engineering, agents, front-end development, and learning in public.https://www.dandenney.com/Give It the Destination, Not the Directionshttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-10/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-10/Four tools and a single idea: when you hand an agent the outcome instead of the steps, you get judgment instead of a script — and that difference compounds.Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTMore Than It Seemedhttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-07/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-07/A silly Google Slides trick, a framework breaking from its roots, and a school that made me genuinely wish I was five years old again. Today's theme: the second layer is usually the interesting one.Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTExecution Ends, Judgment Beginshttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-06/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-06/Today AI tools got more room to run, information architecture was reaffirmed as the durable human layer, and one framework named the shift already underway in product design.Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTDon't Fight the Rolehttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-05/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-05/When Discord auto-selects @Hermes the role instead of the bot, the answer isn't a different typing habit — it's eliminating the ambiguity from the setup.Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTSkills Are Routers, Not Documentshttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-04/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-04/A good skill doesn't explain what to do — it decides what enters context, at what cost, and when to earn its place. The words matter, but the structure decides everything.Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Gap Is the Featurehttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-03/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-03/Reliability comes from the system boundary — the artifact between steps — not from trying harder. Today's lessons all traced back to that one idea.Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 GMTMaps, Margins & Making Tastehttps://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-02/https://www.dandenney.com/yil/2026-05-02/Five things learned on May 2nd — where cycle time really lives, what responsive images finally got right, how to build codebases agents can read, and why designed habits beat guilty ones.Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT