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
Breaking Recursive Self-Improvement: How Research World Models Eliminate GPU Bottlenecks Autonomous engineering systems that optimize their own code…
The Test Wasn't Wrong. It Was Answering an Older Question.
The Test Wasn't Wrong. It Was Answering an Older Question. I shipped a change I had reviewed, simulated, and deployed. An hour later my acceptance s…
Level Up Your FAANG Interview: A 3‑Month Training Montage Inspired by Rocky
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I opened LeetCode and felt like I’d stepped into the Upside Down from Stranger Things —…
It Had Been Working Fine
Four people apologized. None of them was lying. The Screenshot It started with a screenshot. A user was testing the product. They called an endpoint…
The Agent Deleted the Comment That Explained Why the Code Looks Weird
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 AI Bottleneck Isn't Generating Code — It's Governing It
Anyone who has given autonomous AI coding agents (Claude, Devin, Antigravity, or Copilot Workspace) free rein in a production repository knows the u…
Your agent added a sleep() to fix a flaky test. It didn't fix anything.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Keeping Two Faces From Swapping Mid-Verse: Identity Preservation in AI Music Videos
The problem nobody warns you about You train a model to turn two photos into a short music video. The first three seconds look great. Then, around s…
Does Programming Language Choice Affect AI Coding Efficiency? A Benchmarking Framework for SaaS Engineering
AI coding assistants now write functions, generate tests, refactor old code, and sometimes build whole services. Most teams use them without asking…
From T-Shirt Sizes to Token Quotes?
I'll start with my position, because the rest of the article depends on it. I'm against estimation. I have been for a long time. My team has already…
I Explored AI Software Factories and Realized That Faster Coding Doesn't Mean Faster Software Delivery!
I got interested in the AI Software Factory concept because it asks a much bigger question than “How can I write code faster?” It asks how AI agents…
Honoring Margaret Hamilton: Preserving Legacy of Pioneers Behind Modern AI and Autonomous Systems
Technical Reconstruction of Margaret Hamilton's Contributions to Software Engineering and AI Foundations Main Thesis: Margaret Hamilton's pioneering…
Negotiating Your Salary Like a Jedi: One Technique That Works
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I got a job offer after months of interviewing. The recruiter threw out a number that f…
The Cost of Architectural Symmetry
Why different responsibilities deserve different amounts of structure. There is something reassuring about opening a codebase and recognizing its st…
The Pressure Points of Software Architecture
Software architecture rarely breaks where we expect it to. A system can have clean code, elegant abstractions, carefully designed APIs, automated te…
Polymarket Trading Bot: Building a Polymarket TWAP End-Cycle Sniper - Why Simpler Risk Logic Worked Better
When I started building my Polymarket TWAP End-Cycle Sniper, the original idea was simple: Find a high-probability opportunity near the end of a sho…