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For engineers who pair with AI as a coworker, keep the thinking, and ship value instead of slop.
- Why do we even have loops? Supplements for engineers who skipped leg day
- Delete All Your Skills The essence probably fits on a pamphlet
- 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.
- We went from human slop to AI slop. That’s fine. Hot take: AI-written code is not that bad.
- Agentic coding is boring if you only write code Play the metagame
- The skill that outlasts coding No, it’s not the developers who use AI nonsense.
- Time-to-market vs time-to-regret Is code still important?
- The Year of Side Projects If you ignore the advice of people whose success depends on AI development going vertical, you’ll find yourself in a different storyline.
- AI is too dumb. Let me do this! Why it’s still hard to do “AI” right
- The Local Agentic Future is Already Here — Just Not All at Once How the transition period will look like
- Why you should be excited about local LLMs too cheap models are good
- I Tried to One-Shot My Entire Sprint With AI and Failed Why Agentic Coding Is So Difficult in an Enterprise
- How to Give AI Agents Safe Access to Your Production Database This boring fix is older than agentic coding
- Cursor Made Agentic Coding WYSIWYG Hi Friends,
- Why I Cancelled My Claude Code and ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions (for Side Projects) Last week I posted a simple tweet and it exploded (300k+ views).
- Power Plants and Steam Engines: How SDKs Will Solve the Compute Crisis I found two technologies that fight both model lock-in and the growing infra crisis.
- I don't know — but here's how I'd find out Why defensiveness isn't seniority — and what to say instead.
- How to write coding agent teams that actually work Four design choices behind a code-review team that ships useful feedback.
- Nothing Failed. That’s the Problem. Your agent optimizes for green, not for truth.
- Your AI Tests Are Probably Useless How to write better tests with coding agents