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AI-assisted development.

What actually changes when agents write most of the code. These posts cover the tooling I use daily, the failure modes I have hit, and the parts of the work that stubbornly still require a person.

  • September 22, 2026

    How To Avoid “Slop Grenades”

    Unreviewed AI output creates work for everyone downstream. Avoiding slop grenades is a management problem: senior engineers, real review, serious tools.

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  • September 14, 2026

    The Post-IDE Era

    Why I canceled JetBrains and moved beyond the IDE: natural language, agent orchestration, and systems thinking are becoming my primary programming interface.

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  • August 28, 2026

    The Evolution of Automation: From Shell Scripts to AI Organizations

    Automation keeps moving up the abstraction stack, from shell scripts and infrastructure-as-code to orchestrated AI organizations.

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  • August 26, 2026

    Your AI Coworker Might Be More Honest Than Your Human One

    Claude Code’s habit of explaining what it verified, assumed, and skipped can sound funny, but it may be a standard human coworkers should emulate.

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  • August 24, 2026

    The Internet Is Becoming Agent-First: From Fighting Bots to Empowering AI Agents

    The web spent decades blocking bots. AI agents now need access. The agent-first internet will trade friction for convenience and force a new trust model.

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  • August 4, 2026

    What Will Be the First Agent-Native Programming Language?

    Every programming language we use was designed for humans to read. As agents write more of the code, what does a language designed for them instead look like?

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  • July 30, 2026

    Scope Creep in the Age of AI

    AI makes every product tweak fast and satisfying. The real challenge is resisting endless polish long enough to protect the critical path and ship.

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  • July 15, 2026

    When Everyone Can Build, Taste Is the Bottleneck

    AI made building software almost free. The scarce input now is taste: knowing what to make, what to cut, and when something is good enough to ship.

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  • May 14, 2026

    I Built Reusable Claude Code Skills to Ship Production Websites Faster

    Why AI-generated sites stall on the boring production work (SEO, prerendering, analytics, deployment) and how reusable Claude Code skills fix it.

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