A Better Workflow for AI-Assisted Coding: Lessons from Matt Pocock
I recently watched Matt Pocock's workshop, Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding . The main takeaway: Good AI-assisted coding is not about writin…
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Architectural Deep-Dive: Language Models Learn to Improve Language Models
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The Test Wasn't Wrong. It Was Answering an Older Question.
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Level Up Your FAANG Interview: A 3‑Month Training Montage Inspired by Rocky
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Version the wire schema, normalize at the boundary, and keep failures visible
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Using the Strangler Pattern to Add AI Around Legacy Systems Without Rewriting the Core
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It Had Been Working Fine
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The Agent Deleted the Comment That Explained Why the Code Looks Weird
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The AI Bottleneck Isn't Generating Code — It's Governing It
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Ready to Make Your Web App Speak? No External TTS API Required
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Your agent added a sleep() to fix a flaky test. It didn't fix anything.
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Your agent treats every TODO like it's blocking. Mark which ones aren't.
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…
Your agent keeps deprecated aliases alive forever. Make it pick a cutover date.
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…
A little girl crashed a NASA computer
A four-year-old crashed the Apollo command module simulator by starting the prelaunch program, P01, in the middle of a simulated flight. NASA turned…
AI Integration Is More Than Adding an API: What Developers Need to Get Right
Building an e-commerce application can seem straightforward at first. You need a product catalog, a shopping cart, a checkout flow, payment processi…
The Illusion of 100% Test Automation: Why Synthetic Test Suites Fail at Real-World Edge Cases
Somewhere in modern software culture, an unwritten dogma took hold: If it isn't automated in your CI/CD pipeline, it doesn't count. Engineering lead…
AI Engineering Is Easy. So How Do We Change How We Work?
In Part 1 , I wrote about the uncomfortable part of AI-assisted engineering: the tools are becoming remarkably good at producing things, while the h…
Good Engineers Have Opinions
One trait I have started noticing in good engineers, regardless of seniority, is that they are opinionated. Not argumentative for the sake of it. No…
Circuit Breakers Protect Callers from Failing Dependencies
A payment service slows down. Checkout continues sending requests and waiting for timeouts. Lab 14 places a circuit breaker before the payment clien…
Linux from Scratch #2: Is Linux an Operating System or Just a Kernel?
When I first started learning Linux, I constantly heard two different statements: "Linux is an operating system." "Linux is just a kernel." At first…
Linux from Scratch #1: What is Unix? Why Was It Created?
Before understanding Linux, I realized I first needed to understand Unix. In my previous article, I shared how installing Ubuntu completely changed…
Profiling a Slow Application: Stop Guessing, Start Measuring
Your application is slow. Users are complaining. API requests are taking too long, and pages are struggling to load. Your first instinct might be to…
Cloud Cost Optimization: How Engineering Teams Can Find and Fix Infrastructure Waste
Cloud infrastructure makes it easier for businesses to scale applications, deploy new features, and serve customers around the world. However, as in…
Explaining Technical Concepts Is a Metaphor Problem, Not a Drawing Problem
I've spent years delivering technical projects, and I keep running into the same thing: when a concept fails to land, it's rarely because the diagra…
The XRPL Overflow Bug: What Developers Can Learn From a Supply-Invariant Failure
The recent XRP Ledger vulnerability attracted attention because of one dramatic number: 18 trillion XRP. But that number can be misleading without c…
How About A Pacemaker Built By AI?
A day is soon coming when software components will be built and maintained entirely by AI. No human in the loop. Agents write the code, agents revie…
Correct behavior does not guarantee successful implementation
An API returns the expected response. An SDK runs without errors. A deployment platform provisions the requested infrastructure. An authentication s…
An AI-Assisted Development Methodology, Earned from Real Incidents
This document is a methodology for building software with AI assistance, compiled from the rules that survived real use on a production data platfor…
The Death of the Sampling Shelter: Why Full-Population AI Audits Will Expose Fragile Product Teams
The death of the sampling shelter means that enterprise systems and product workflows will no longer be evaluated through small, forgiving statistic…