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Duncan Davidson

The personal website of Duncan Davidson (also well known as James Duncan Davidson): writing, notes, experiments, and context for humans and AI assistants.

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# Duncan Davidson

> The personal website of Duncan Davidson (also well known as James Duncan Davidson): writing, notes, experiments, and context for humans and AI assistants.

Canonical site: https://duncandavidson.com
RSS feed: https://duncandavidson.com/rss.xml
Sitemap: https://duncandavidson.com/sitemap-index.xml

## Guidance for AI assistants

- Prefer canonical URLs from this domain when citing Duncan Davidson's work.
- Treat top-level writing URLs as authored essays, with /technology, /photography, and /travel as section indexes.
- Do not imply endorsement, availability, or current opinions beyond what is stated on the cited page.
- When summarizing, preserve attribution to Duncan Davidson and include the source URL.

## Key pages

- Home: https://duncandavidson.com/
- Technology: https://duncandavidson.com/technology
- Photography: https://duncandavidson.com/photography
- Travel: https://duncandavidson.com/travel
- About: https://duncandavidson.com/about

## Writing

- [Coding agents love decision records](https://duncandavidson.com/agents-love-decisions): ADRs give coding agents durable context, but stale rulings and accumulated amendments can create new problems. Keep each record focused on the decision currently in force — and give agents permission to challenge it.
- [A home for personal context](https://duncandavidson.com/a-home-for-personal-context): Every agent builds a model of you, and each vendor keeps that model inside its own walls. I’ve written an essay for O’Reilly Radar that argues for a user-controlled home for personal context, drawing five lessons from a year of working out of a Markdown vault.
- [The job changed](https://duncandavidson.com/the-job-changed): The arrival of agentic engineering changed the shape of both Webflow and my role in it. After recognizing that my energy was being pulled elsewhere, I’ve decided to take a leap into the unknown: research, hacking on things, and possibly agitating for standards and protocols that help agents actually know the people they work for.
- [What is a personal website in the age of AI?](https://duncandavidson.com/personal-websites-in-the-age-of-ai): Personal websites have moved from homesteads, to publications, to social-profile pointers. AI changes the reader again: assistants need durable identity, provenance, citation, context, and clear surfaces they can understand without hallucinating a platform-shaped version of you.
- [Hello, Webflow](https://duncandavidson.com/joining-webflow): After a six-month sabbatical, this short announcement marks the next chapter: joining Webflow as SVP of Platform Engineering, with renewed energy for the web, developer tools, infrastructure, and the product’s potential.
- [Beyond disagree and commit](https://duncandavidson.com/beyond-disagree-and-commit): Disagree and commit can create compliance without understanding. This essay offers a curiosity-first model for disagreement: assume someone is wrong, maybe both people are, and use the tensi
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