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Word of the Year: Harness

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If you spent any time around AI tooling this year, you watched “harness” go from a word nobody used to one in every changelog, blog post, and conference slide. Anthropic’s own docs describe Claude Code ...

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On Spec-Driven Development and AI

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Engineering is hard Let me start with a couple stories. A team picks up notification preferences, the kind of feature where users choose how they want to be contacted. Brief discussion, general agreement, shipped in ...

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My first Spec-Driven Development project

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Previous: Introducing FrozenDB “Look ma, no hands” - I wrote FrozenDB without writing lines of code. Instead, I used spec-driven development to generate all of the user stories, map them carefully to technical requirements and ...

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Understanding Softmax

AI

A collection of pastel colored billiard balls When running an inference server, you can choose settings like temperature, top-p, and top-k. To understand these values, we really just need an understanding of the softmax activation ...

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Graduating to the terminal

AI

This is the first post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. It runs from terminal-curious to fairly advanced and has no planned end. The early posts will be simple, maybe too simple if ...

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interview

AI Killed Resumes

Technology

I’m currently hiring a backend software engineer for my team. On the first day, we received hundreds of applications. Hundreds of garbage applications. This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon. No matter what you put in ...

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A tan and white dog lying in a grassy field, wearing a purple dog harness

Word of the Year: Harness

AI

If you spent any time around AI tooling this year, you watched “harness” go from a word nobody used to one in every changelog, blog post, and conference slide. Anthropic’s own docs describe Claude Code ...

Read more ⟶
A code editor showing a pyproject.toml file next to an OpenCode terminal session

Graduating to the terminal

AI

This is the first post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. It runs from terminal-curious to fairly advanced and has no planned end. The early posts will be simple, maybe too simple if ...

Read more ⟶
kevin-canlas-e_mbJ0T0mes-unsplash

My first Spec-Driven Development project

AI

Previous: Introducing FrozenDB “Look ma, no hands” - I wrote FrozenDB without writing lines of code. Instead, I used spec-driven development to generate all of the user stories, map them carefully to technical requirements and ...

Read more ⟶
Two people collaborating on hand-drawn UI wireframes taped to a wall

On Spec-Driven Development and AI

AI

Engineering is hard Let me start with a couple stories. A team picks up notification preferences, the kind of feature where users choose how they want to be contacted. Brief discussion, general agreement, shipped in ...

Read more ⟶
interview

AI Killed Resumes

Technology

I’m currently hiring a backend software engineer for my team. On the first day, we received hundreds of applications. Hundreds of garbage applications. This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon. No matter what you put in ...

Read more ⟶
A collection of pastel colored billiard balls

Understanding Softmax

AI

A collection of pastel colored billiard balls When running an inference server, you can choose settings like temperature, top-p, and top-k. To understand these values, we really just need an understanding of the softmax activation ...

Read more ⟶
A tan and white dog lying in a grassy field, wearing a purple dog harness

Word of the Year: Harness

AI

If you spent any time around AI tooling this year, you watched “harness” go from a word nobody used to one in every changelog, blog post, and conference slide. Anthropic’s own docs describe Claude Code ...

Read more ⟶
A code editor showing a pyproject.toml file next to an OpenCode terminal session

Graduating to the terminal

AI

This is the first post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. It runs from terminal-curious to fairly advanced and has no planned end. The early posts will be simple, maybe too simple if ...

Read more ⟶
Two people collaborating on hand-drawn UI wireframes taped to a wall

On Spec-Driven Development and AI

AI

Engineering is hard Let me start with a couple stories. A team picks up notification preferences, the kind of feature where users choose how they want to be contacted. Brief discussion, general agreement, shipped in ...

Read more ⟶
kevin-canlas-e_mbJ0T0mes-unsplash

My first Spec-Driven Development project

AI

Previous: Introducing FrozenDB “Look ma, no hands” - I wrote FrozenDB without writing lines of code. Instead, I used spec-driven development to generate all of the user stories, map them carefully to technical requirements and ...

Read more ⟶
interview

AI Killed Resumes

Technology

I’m currently hiring a backend software engineer for my team. On the first day, we received hundreds of applications. Hundreds of garbage applications. This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon. No matter what you put in ...

Read more ⟶
A collection of pastel colored billiard balls

Understanding Softmax

AI

A collection of pastel colored billiard balls When running an inference server, you can choose settings like temperature, top-p, and top-k. To understand these values, we really just need an understanding of the softmax activation ...

Read more ⟶