AI 14 min read
My Agentic Web Development Setup Is Basically a `while True` Loop
A multi-model web development pipeline — research, design, implementation, review — eventually orchestrated by a boring Python while True loop.
#coding-agents
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Infrastructure 15 min read
I Moved Development to a Remote VM. Coding Agents Made Me Stay.
I moved my dev environment to a remote VM to stop rebuilding it across machines. Coding agents and tmux turned the experiment into how I work by default.
AI 16 min read
AI Feels Faster. The Data Is Less Certain.
AI coding tools feel transformative, but the productivity evidence is mixed. Part 2: perceived speed vs measured outcomes, and why review is the bottleneck.
AI 16 min read
AI-Native Software Engineering Isn’t About AI
AI-native engineering isn't about how much AI you use. It's a development model where AI is a primary participant in building software, not an assistant.
AI 18 min read
The Future of Software Engineering Is an Operating Model
AI-native engineering isn't about removing humans. Part 5: how roles, teams, economics and accountability shift when implementation stops being the main work.
AI 19 min read
The Model Is Only One Part of the System
A useful AI workflow takes more than a better prompt. Part 3: specifications, context engineering, agent workflows, and the harness that enforces boundaries.
AI 18 min read
When Agents Scale, Coordination Becomes the Product
One agent can misunderstand a requirement; several misunderstand it differently. Part 4: coordination, multi-agent orchestration and verification at scale.
AI 16 min read
The Model Is Not the Development Environment
I spent 12 million input tokens on a small monorepo change. The problem was not the model. It was the development environment around it.
AI 11 min read
AI Speeds Up Coding, Not Engineering
An opinionated workflow for building good-enough software with AI coding agents without surrendering architecture, judgment, or security.
AI 18 min read
I Tried Too Many Coding Agents. Here Is What I Would Actually Pay For
A subjective comparison of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and the models inside them, based on ordinary application work rather than benchmarks.
Software Engineering 6 min read
Stop Cloning the Same Repo Again and Again. Git Worktrees Exist.
Stop cloning the same repo for every context switch. Git worktrees give you several branches at once — no WIP commits, no broken dependencies, no clutter.
AI 7 min read
Not Everyone Needs Frontier LLMs for Coding
Frontier models are brilliant, but most everyday coding runs fine on smaller ones if your workflow is clear. Choose tools for your use case, not the hype.
