- What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer? My day, my tooling, and the system changes that make high-volume AI-assisted shipping possible.
- The Claude Dichotomy. AI is creating a genuine dichotomy: teams drowning in AI-supercharged chaos, others are thriving. The difference is in the approach to transformation.
- Tool Augmented Prompting. Your linter, compiler, and test runner already talk to the AI. Make them say something useful.
- Still choose boring technology. Dan McKinley's classic advice on "choosing boring technology" is even more true in the AI era.
- Skills I'm ceding to AI. My shortlist of coding skills I'm genuinely comfortable handing to AI.
- Infinite Monkeys. AI coding tools need a high degree of parallelism to work. Without it, you're just watching a monkey type.
- No agents, no plan, ship it. Why I prefer single-prompt one-shotting with AI coding tools over multi-step agents, swarms, and planning modes.
- Faster horses and AI Productivity. Not all AI productivity gains are real. A framework for telling the faster horses from the genuine improvements.
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Mar A Demographic Collapse of Developers , Clear Your AI Mind , Spin the Bottle Neck , Do as I say not as I TODO , AI Prompts are Wishes , Don't Believe the Hype
Feb Know Your Models , On choosing optimism? , Sharpening the Axe (Branch) , A Daily AI Chat , Adaptive, not Compliance , Skilled Humans in the Loop , My Current AI Coding Workflow , Your Brain on GPS
Jan The Mythical Machine-Month , The 'Comment-Only' Prompt , Having a Senior Moment , AI and abandonware , The pace of AI tools , Return to Office (or) Agent
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