Quality is the new Quantity
AI made writing software cheap. That is the obvious story. More code, more prototypes, more pull requests, more “I built this in one afternoon” moment…
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AI is reducing quality
Once upon a time in 2018 I posted a few of my written articles to Reddit and got some replies where I was accused of "posting low quality responses wi…
Your AI agent's diff looks fine. That's the problem.
Give an agent a simple task: Add an optional loyalty discount to retail pricing. Enterprise pricing and the public API must stay unchanged. Twenty min…
AI Code Generation Has a Social Media Problem
The morning I announced what I'd been building, a comment showed up on the post. It was friendly. It opened with a compliment, agreed with me, and the…
Dear Beginner Developer
It's okay if you don't know everything. It's okay if your code isn't perfect. It's okay if your first few internship applications get rejected. Every …
I Let 24 Famous Engineers Review My Methodology. Here's What Happened.
I spent tonight building a methodology for turning personal tools into open source contributions. Before publishing it, I decided to let the methodolo…
6 checks before merging AI-agent generated code
AI coding agents are useful because they can make large changes quickly. That is also the reason I do not want to merge their patches just because the…
Code Quality findings now have a REST API a pipeline can actually call
The first time we needed yesterday's CodeQL findings for a tracking ticket, I clicked through the Code Quality UI for about ten minutes, copied a rule…
The Tech Debt Nobody Wrote Down
Most of the debt that actually takes a codebase down was never written down anywhere. That, not the raw volume of AI-generated code, is what the curre…
When Your Codebase Starts Slowing You Down...
Every developer knows the feeling. You open a ticket that looks simple. A small change. Maybe one endpoint, one validation rule, one extra field. Then…
When Code Takes a Break: What Engineers Think About on Silent Days
📌 Overview Today was a "silent day" — no Claude Code sessions, no commits, no code changes. Yet technical work isn't just about writing code. This day…
How To Measure AI Token Debt In A Real Codebase
AI token debt is the extra AI-agent context, repository search, inference, retry, and validation work created when a codebase is hard to reason about.…
"It Works" Has Never Been Good Enough
It all started when the Senior Architect dropped by the daily standup. The team lead had the backlog up on the big screen and there was a story about …
AI wrote 80% of my plugin. Six months later I couldn't maintain it.
The first thing I noticed when I reopened that plugin after six months was that the same date-formatting logic lived in three places. One in a utility…
Your AI Agent Writes Code With Hidden Debt. Here's How I Force It to Audit Itself.
Companies are spending 44% of their AI tokens fixing bugs that AI generated (Entelligence AI, May 2026). CodeRabbit analyzed open-source PRs and found…
AI coding assistants are making juniors worse and seniors lazier
Copilot is quietly eroding two different skill sets at once. And almost nobody is talking about it honestly. GitHub Copilot has exceeded 1.5 million p…
The Role of QA in the New AI SDLC
QA’s role in the new AI SDLC is no longer just “test the finished application.” It is becoming quality engineering across the entire lifecycle : Requi…
Securing AI Generated Code: You Ship It, You Own It
A developer merges a pull request on Friday afternoon. Monday morning, a security review flags a SQL injection flaw in a new endpoint. When you ask wh…
Why AI-Generated Code Is Always Good Enough — And Never Great
AI wrote a function for me last week It worked Tests passed Edge cases handled I shipped it. But something bothered me - not enough to rewrite it not …
The Java reordering tool I wanted for years, so I finally built it
For years, I wanted one simple thing in Java projects: a reliable way to keep class members ordered and formatted consistently. Fields, constructors, …
Sloppification Is The New Obfuscation
Remember ProGuard? Variable names gone, control flow flattened, string constants encrypted. Code unreadable by design. That was obfuscation — delibera…
⚖️ Case File 4.1: The Efficiency Extortion
The Performance Syndicate Performance isn't about how fast your code runs; it’s about how little work it actually has to do. In nearly two decades of …
Lessons from three months of vibe coding (and a complexity score of 53)
TL;DR — I spent three months vibe-coding a side project with an AI agent. It felt fast and productive until I opened a file and saw 3000 lines, functi…
The 1-day-thrown-away rule: read the code before letting your AI write new code
Six in the morning, looking at the output April twenty-ninth, six in the morning. The rendering hits the screen. A A A A A across the entire document …
One AI code review pass isn't enough. Here's the loop that actually catches bugs.
You ran the AI reviewer. It said "LGTM." You shipped. Then production caught fire. This is happening more and more this year. Teams adopt Claude, Copi…
AI-generated code doesn't fail loudly. It fails correctly-looking.
AI-generated code rarely breaks in obvious ways. It passes review, ships to production, and behaves correctly in controlled scenarios. The problem is …
Senior Developers: Experts in Code, But What About Communication?
We’ve all been there: a senior developer confidently expounds on their expertise, yet the codebase seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes, it's li…
"Prime Testable" Code
What is the EASIEST Python code to test? Because writing unit tests is a superpower. It's great. Completely changes what you are capable of as a devel…
200 Lines in CLAUDE.md Dropped My Code Quality to 79% — Splitting into 3 Files Got It to 96.9%
More rules should mean better output. That's the intuition. I spent weeks building a comprehensive CLAUDE.md — 200 lines covering naming conventions, …
Code That Lasts: Mastering Software Design Principles (with Golang)
Have you ever looked at code you wrote six months ago and thought: "Who wrote this monster?" ? Relax, it happens to all of us. In software engineering…