Planning before editing
This is the fifth post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, the second taught the agent your conventions, the third covered the context window, and ...
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Managing context
This is the third post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, and the second taught the agent your project’s conventions. Both of those write something ...
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Graduating to the terminal
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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AI Killed Resumes
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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The agent's native toolbelt
This is the fourth post in our series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, the second taught the agent your project’s conventions, and the third covered the context ...
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Word of the Year: Harness
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
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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The ceiling is a fence
The most capable AI model gets pulled because it turns dangerous once the guardrails come off. Any model gets jailbroken within days regardless. If that is where we are, have we hit a quiet ceiling ...
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Teaching the agent your conventions
This is the second post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal. This one teaches the agent about the project you work in, so you stop ...
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My first Spec-Driven Development project
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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Planning before editing
This is the fifth post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, the second taught the agent your conventions, the third covered the context window, and ...
Read more ⟶
The ceiling is a fence
The most capable AI model gets pulled because it turns dangerous once the guardrails come off. Any model gets jailbroken within days regardless. If that is where we are, have we hit a quiet ceiling ...
Read more ⟶
Word of the Year: Harness
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 ⟶
Graduating to the terminal
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 ⟶
My first Spec-Driven Development project
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 ⟶
The agent's native toolbelt
This is the fourth post in our series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, the second taught the agent your project’s conventions, and the third covered the context ...
Read more ⟶
Managing context
This is the third post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, and the second taught the agent your project’s conventions. Both of those write something ...
Read more ⟶
Teaching the agent your conventions
This is the second post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal. This one teaches the agent about the project you work in, so you stop ...
Read more ⟶
On Spec-Driven Development and 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 ⟶
AI Killed Resumes
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 ⟶
Planning before editing
This is the fifth post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, the second taught the agent your conventions, the third covered the context window, and ...
Read more ⟶
The agent's native toolbelt
This is the fourth post in our series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, the second taught the agent your project’s conventions, and the third covered the context ...
Read more ⟶
The ceiling is a fence
The most capable AI model gets pulled because it turns dangerous once the guardrails come off. Any model gets jailbroken within days regardless. If that is where we are, have we hit a quiet ceiling ...
Read more ⟶
Managing context
This is the third post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal, and the second taught the agent your project’s conventions. Both of those write something ...
Read more ⟶
Word of the Year: Harness
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 ⟶
Teaching the agent your conventions
This is the second post in a series on the AI engineering toolkit. The first one moved you into the terminal. This one teaches the agent about the project you work in, so you stop ...
Read more ⟶
Graduating to the terminal
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 ⟶
On Spec-Driven Development and 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 ⟶
My first Spec-Driven Development project
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 ⟶
AI Killed Resumes
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 ⟶