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Our main app is TypeScript. The build is Vite, the tests are Vitest, the CLI scripts are Node. Every engineer on the repo is comfortable in that sta…
Getting into coding just for fun. I've been working through lessons and Codecademy and this is my first project for development basics. This is the…
Seven stories from the past 24 hours, each anchored to at least one official source. This edition keeps circling one theme: when agents do the work,…
The build script was 40 lines of bash. It ran npm test , then npm run build , then rsync the dist folder to a server, then paged us on Slack. It wor…
The function looked wrong. It returned an object with a key that started with a dollar sign, it did a network call inside a loop, and it mapped one…
The test file passed. The function it was supposed to cover was broken. The mock was the giveaway. CI went green. Coverage on the new module jumped…
The PR diff looks fine. You asked the agent to add a phone-number validator. It added a file called validation-helpers.ts with a clean, well-tested…
The PR comes in. CI is red. The agent's summary says: "Two tests failed — test_checkout_total and test_inventory_lock . Both were already failing on…
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I stared at a LeetCode screen and felt like I’d been dropped into the middle of a Dark…
Today's AI landscape is shifting toward the infrastructure of intelligence. From Microsoft's deep dive into frontier pre-training to new legal rulin…
The CI log shows a timeout. You send the failure to your agent. Two minutes later, it opens a PR: await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500)) befo…
You leave a comment in the middle of a refactor: // TODO: cache this call for the list endpoint You meant: come back to this when the list page actu…
The refactor PR looks clean. getUserById becomes fetchUserById , the body moves to a new service file, and the tests pass. At the bottom of the diff…
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I was knee‑deep in a data‑cleaning script that had to read a 2 GB log file, pull out timestamps, and push them into a d…
Your tests pass. But would they catch a bug? Imagine asking an AI coding agent to implement a feature. A few minutes later, it has generated the imp…
There is a moment in every AI-assisted project where the repo gets too big to paste. Most people solve it by pasting more. The context window is hug…
A student writes a program that performs the same calculation thousands of times, even though the answer never changes. The program works. The outpu…
I spent half my afternoon switching between model endpoints, copying tokens, and debugging weird request errors. Why do we have to fight with so man…
Today's AI landscape shifts toward privacy concerns and industry pragmatism. We see a clash between silent deployment and human-centric workforce st…
You hand the agent a context pack: a map of the codebase, the relevant files, the architecture notes, the recent diff. It looks great. The agent rea…
We traded branch hell for boolean hell, and somehow convinced ourselves it was progress. Feature flags promised continuous delivery utopia. Push to…
You ask your agent to cover a new function. It comes back with eight tests, all green. You move on. Sometime later you're staring at the diff and a…
Code Is the New Assembly. Stop Reviewing It. Gergely Orosz, the voice behind The Pragmatic Engineer with over a million subscribers, recently posted…
Last week I watched an agent spend eleven minutes on a failing integration test, hit a wall, and then do the thing I should have expected: It delete…
Give an agent a ticket that says "add a refund endpoint for cancelled orders." It will write a route, a service method, a migration, and three tests…
The most useful guardrail I've added to my agentic coding workflow isn't a better model, a longer context window, or a fancier system prompt. It's a…
I opened CLAUDE.md last week to ask an agent to fix a payments bug, and the first section described a folder layout we refactored away three sprints…
The diff that looks like a win You hand the agent a 40-line helper that's been in production since 2022. You ask it to "clean this up." Thirty secon…
When I started working with Java, even relatively small projects felt confusing. I could understand what individual classes and methods were doing,…