Quality Isn't Accidental — Maker/Checker Separation and Automated Validation
The Core Argument : AI agent reliability isn't achieved by "making the agent smarter" — it's achieved by the simple engineering principle of separatin…
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How to Review Pull Requests Without a Meeting
The PR review meeting usually starts with good intentions: reviews are stalling, so put everyone in a room and clear the queue. It works once. Then it…
Code Review Habits That Actually Stick
Why Code Reviews Matter Code reviews are one of the most effective ways to catch bugs, share knowledge, and improve code quality. But without good hab…
Stop Using Generic AI Review. Build Your Own Board of Experts.
You finish a piece of work. You ask AI to review it. It says "looks good." You publish. It wasn't good. You had no way to know. That's the problem wit…
A Good AI Code Reviewer Knows When to Stay Quiet
A developer added an AI reviewer to a small Node and React project expecting an easy win. At first, the comments looked useful. Then the reviewer star…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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, …
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…