Building an Event Planning Coordinator Agent in typescript with HazelJS
Planning an event—whether it's a birthday party, corporate meeting, or wedding—requires coordinating multiple moving parts simultaneously. From findin…
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I wasted a weekend on WSL2 browser automation so you don’t have to
If you want browser automation on Windows that actually survives contact with reality, treat WSL2 networking as the first problem. Not Playwright. Not…
Coding Agents and Developer Economics on the Microsoft Stack (2026)
Every few years a tool arrives that is supposed to end programming as a paid profession. FORTRAN was going to let scientists write their own code. COB…
The AI Agent Hiring Crisis: Why Most Companies Are Building the Wrong Teams
The AI agent hype is real. Everyone wants to build autonomous systems that can write code, make decisions, and operate unsupervised. But here's the pr…
AI Coding's Real Bottleneck Is Repository Execution Trust
Overview For a while, the central question in AI coding felt obvious: Can the model generate good code? That is still important, but it is no longer t…
Where the Review Point Moved
Originally published at tddbuddy.com . Reviewing the diff is now harmful, not just insufficient. This is the first post in a two-part series, "The PR …
TestSprite's CLI hands your coding agent one clean failure at a time
TestSprite's CLI makes a design choice most testing tools would never advertise: it refuses to do something. When a coding agent asks for a failure re…
Adversarial Review: The Six Lenses That Halted a Rollout
"We shipped the safety work" is a feeling, not a fact. Before you hand a shared, governed system to a team, the only thing that converts that feeling …
Loop Engineering: Score the System That Prompts Your Agents
Loop Engineering makes a blunt argument: the person who writes prompts to a coding agent is now the bottleneck, so the job is to design the system tha…
World-Building Is the Test Discipline Agents Need
Originally published at tddbuddy.com . Related reading: The Bar for TDD Just Moved names the floor; TDD Already Does BDD, Without the Gherkin names th…
Agents Amplify Whatever Vocabulary They Find
Originally published at tddbuddy.com . This is part 2 of the "Vocabulary Is the Product" series. Part 1, The Hidden Output of TDD Was Never Code , arg…
When AI Agents Write the Code, What's Missing Are the Reins — Introducing basou
I closed the previous post with a promise: that the development style behind this blog, and the OSS I've been shipping — a harness for steering AI cod…
Your AI Can Do More Than Talk — Here's How to Make It Actually Work for You
You asked your AI to help you plan a trip. It gave you a paragraph about packing layers and booking early. You needed a checklist, a hotel shortlist, …
Sandboxing your agent isn't the hard part, keeping it cheap is
Every autonomous agent you drop on a cluster is a Linux process you agreed to babysit. Cute framing, until the bill lands. On the CNCF blog this week,…
Your AI Agent Project Is Really a Data Project: The Data-Prep Tax
Ask a CRM for one customer's open pipeline when that customer is stored under four spellings, and a retrieval-based agent answers with a confident wro…
The 10-Line Prompt That Turns ChatGPT Into a Fully Autonomous AI Agent
Most people treat Large Language Models like glorified search engines: ask a question, skim the output, close the tab. That workflow is fine for trivi…
Fixing tmux dashboard for coding agents: Mobile Clipboard + 30%
This article was originally published on BuildZn . Everyone talks about managing LLMs but nobody explains how to babysit them in CLI. Juggling 3+ tmux…
Why AI agents fail reasoning tasks: Token Clustering Theory
This article was originally published on BuildZn . Everyone's hyped about GPT-4o and Opus. Amazing for chat, sure. But when my AI agents fail reasonin…
Gate the Statement, Not the Tool Name
The original safety gate on the Dolt-over-MCP plugin tried to keep a Claude Code agent harmless by excluding "history-affecting tools" from its MCP gr…
Bimaaji: agent-safe mutations for Waaseyaa
Ahnii! If you let an AI agent modify your application, the agent needs more than a text editor. Raw str_replace on a PHP file passes a lot of tests an…
Stop Vibe-Coding Power Platform: Turn ADO Work Items Into Specs Any AI Agent Can Build From
The agent brand is irrelevant; the work item is everything. I have watched teams argue about Copilot Studio versus Claude Code versus Codex as if the …
The AI That Now Writes Most of Its Maker's Code
As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code Anthropic ships is written by Claude, not by its human engineers. The company disclosed the figure in an ess…
My agent dry-ran fine in staging 100 times — then wrecked production on the first real run
A staging-to-production data bleed cost me 4 hours of rollback. That's what finally made dry-run a structural requirement, not an afterthought. The co…
Ponytail teaches your AI agent to write less code on purpose
Ponytail's whole pitch is that your AI agent writes too much code, and the fix is a seven-rung checklist that makes it stop sooner. The repo personifi…
I Replaced My Entire Research Workflow With AI Agents. Here's What Actually Worked
I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between w…
My Anthropic bill dropped from $312 to $156 after I added two bash hooks to Claude Code
60% of a $312 Anthropic bill came from a single pattern: Claude Code hitting a D1 migration failure, then spinning up 7–8 retry Bash calls trying to d…
The End of "One-Shot AI": Why Context Engineering Is Replacing Prompt Engineering
Most "prompt engineering" advice circulating today is already obsolete for anyone building production-grade AI. Granular phrasing matters for simple, …
When the agent codes in seconds, CI becomes the slow neighbour
Last week I caught myself doing something embarrassing. I asked an agent to scaffold a small handler, watched it return a tidy diff in roughly the tim…
D1 Schema Migrations with AI Agents: The DDL-in-Transaction Trap That Kills Zero-Downtime Deploys
Running an AI agent to execute your D1 migrations will silently wreck your database — unless you explicitly forbid it from wrapping DDL in a transacti…
MCP Server Auth: The API Is the Real Boundary
A single shared API key is fine right up until a second person uses it. intent-brain — the system, repo qmd-team-intent-kb , renamed to the intent-bra…