Self-Improving Coding Agents 🔗
Imagine ending your workday and waking up to new features coded, tested, and ready for review. This is the promise of autonomous AI coding agents harn [...]
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How to write a good spec for AI agents 🔗
Learn how to write effective specifications for AI coding agents to improve clarity, focus, and productivity in your AI-driven development workflows. [...]
Your AI coding agents need a manager 🔗
In the near future, high-leverage developers look like async-first managers running parallel AI coding agents. The skills that make someone a strong t [...]
AI writes code faster. Your job is still to prove it works. 🔗
AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use r [...]
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering 🔗
Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the ev [...]
My LLM coding workflow going into 2026 🔗
AI coding assistants became game-changers this year, but harnessing them effectively takes skill and structure. Here's my workflow for planning, codin [...]
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google 🔗
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code. [...]
The future of agentic coding: conductors to orchestrators 🔗
AI coding assistants have quickly moved from novelty to necessity where up to 90% of software engineers use some kind of AI for coding. But a new para [...]
Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks 🔗
This guide covers ~30 pro-tips for effectively using Gemini CLI for agentic coding for Gemini 2.5, 3.0 and beyond [...]
The Efficiency Paradox: Why Making Software Easier to Write Means We'll Write Exponentially More 🔗
Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. History suggests we won't do less work - we'll dis [...]