- 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.
- Battleship Prompts. Same task, three different prompts. See which one gets closest. It's surprisingly effective and makes you a better prompter.
- Still choose boring technology. Dan McKinley's classic advice on "choosing boring technology" is even more true in the AI era.
- 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.
- Early observations from Interviews with Engineering Teams Adopting AI. The teams succeeding with AI aren't the ones with the best tooling. They're the ones that changed how they work.
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Mar Customer Success shipped their first PRs , Your company as source code , We're not vibe engineering , A Demographic Collapse of Developers , Clear Your AI Mind , Research for any position , Spin the Bottle Neck , An omnibus of not-so radical ideas in software engineering , Do as I say not as I TODO , AI Prompts are Wishes , My Current AI Coding Workflow (Revisted) , Make it impossible, or Make it safe , Is AI the end of teams? , Skills I'm ceding to AI , Don't Believe the Hype
Feb Infinite Monkeys , 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
Earlier Building super-detailed personas? , What is the 'why now' of your startup? , Will you see bots in your email? , Don't call me and the end of no-reply? , Will we become gut bacteria for AI? , What is the Entrepreneur's Journey? , Do you feel comfortable being flown by an AI pilot? , What will self-driving cars do to cities? , Have you licensed your ruby gems? , Are your ruby gems fresh?