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For engineers who pair with AI as a coworker, keep the thinking, and ship value instead of slop.

  1. Why do we even have loops? Supplements for engineers who skipped leg day
  2. Delete All Your Skills The essence probably fits on a pamphlet
  3. Why a handful of engineers will beat your agent fleet Motivated, capable engineers with a deep understanding of the business will always out-ship meat proxies and create a superior product.
  4. We went from human slop to AI slop. That’s fine. Hot take: AI-written code is not that bad.
  5. Agentic coding is boring if you only write code Play the metagame

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  1. 3 Hard-Won Lessons from Debugging RLM Prompts in Python Learn how to avoid common RLM pitfalls: output parsing gotchas, why showing code beats instructions, and the bias to survive problem.
  2. Adding Local Markdown Posts to Your Hashnode-Powered Astro Blog Learn how to create a hybrid blog system in Astro that fetches posts from Hashnode's GraphQL API while also supporting local markdown files.
  3. Wrong Type Imports Are Breaking Your Full-Stack React App You're running browser tests in your Next.js app with Vitest, and suddenly you're hit with a cascade of Vite pre-transform errors. This time for me it was a next-auth import type error and I couldn't figure out why, since I was importing the types on...
  4. How to Use Cursor Commands to Write JIRA Ticket Descriptions Cursor recently rolled out Commands! 🤩 It is a nice way to describe repeated actions you might type over and over into your agent chat. In this blog post, I’ll show you how I’m using the command to summarize the contents of the current agent session...
  5. Can you use Codex without ChatGPT Plus? Yes. Codex is on ChatGPT Free, Go ($8/month), and Plus ($20/month). Codex has no separate subscription. API-key usage is billed per token, without Plus.
  6. Next.js 16: Turbopack default, and how to disable it Turbopack is Next.js 16.4's default bundler. Disable it with next dev --webpack. NEXT_TURBOPACK_EXPERIMENTAL_USE_SYSTEM_TLS_CERTS existed only in 16.0 and 16.1.
  7. How to Build Your First MCP Workflow In this article, I’ll show you how you can program your MCP servers to execute a small program, pass context between steps, and keep the outputs consistent. Imagine having a voice assistant that isn’t that smart. Let’s say you’re in the middle of you...
  8. Stop Making Your TypeScript Types So Broad Some see TypeScript as a necessary evil. The new linter warnings you have to satisfy, another gotcha to make your coding complex. I used to think the same. Then I realized bad types were the real problem. I think TypeScript is incredible, and it has ...

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