Bare Promises
AI agents need purpose-built tooling. But calling a language agent-first without studying how LLMs interact with code turns a hypothesis into marketing.
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Hooked by Design
AI coding tools run on the same psychological mechanism as slot machines. A friend of mine learned this the hard way: five agents, no sleep, complete burnout.
Read more →Three F's to Get You Off the Market
Most engineers grind LeetCode and polish resumes. The truly elite ones found a faster path. It starts with doing something because it feels good.
Read more →Post-AI Clarity
AI wrote a feature set in two weeks. A lead engineer added integration testing. The result shipped faster than any human team, and it was bulletproof.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
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