Overdressed and Underperforming
I told everyone to pack their AGENTS.md with every detail. A recent study proved me wrong. More instructions make AI agents perform worse. Here is why.
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Knock Before You Commit
AI coding agents will silently guess your missing requirements and ship the wrong thing. The fix is not better prompts. It is making them ask before they build.
Read more →Your Fundamentals Are Showing
AI generates code faster than anyone can read it. The result is comprehension debt. Smart teams solve it by pairing AI speed with proven fundamentals.
Read more →Triggered by a Fork
The Tanstack supply chain attack bypassed npm's trusted publishing in six minutes. I recognized the mistake immediately, because I almost made the same one years ago reviewing a CI pipeline.
Read more →The Impotence of Taking Sides
AI discourse wants you to pick a side. Two decades in software taught me one thing: shipping beats arguing every time. The builders define the next decade.
Read more →The Layer That Makes It Last
AI's breakthroughs are real. What comes next is not better models. It is the systems, standards, and infrastructure that turn a spark into something that lasts.
Read more →Bound to Main
Engineers are trained to wait for tickets. The fastest way to break that habit is to fork a tool you already use and fix the first gap you find.
Read more →Don't Slide Into Main Uninvited
Open source spam has evolved. AI now generates the low-effort pull requests that maintainers dread. Here is how to contribute without adding to the noise.
Read more →Handling Big Loads: A Saga
Systems thinking separates builders from architects. As AI writes more code, understanding how services fail under load is a skill only experience teaches.
Read more →Forking Without Protection
Bun's Zig fork promised 4x speedups but missed the real bottleneck. AI can help us move fast, but only careful engineering keeps us safe.
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