Review of Fred Brooks' 'The Mythical Man-Month' and its enduring lessons on software project management and conceptual integrity.
Explores designing autonomous AI agent teams for software engineering, from subagents to parallel implementations.
Agent Skills project enforces senior engineering workflows like specs and tests for AI coding agents, preventing shortcuts to 'done'.
Explores the end of traditional coding, shifting from writing syntax to expressing intent and leading AI agents in software development.
Article discusses the importance of using evals to measure AI improvements when adding AI skills to your resume.
Summary of a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 discussing AI agents, Software 3.0, and the shift to agentic engineering.
Analysis of rising token costs in AI coding tools at tech companies, with insights from engineers on budget impacts and potential solutions.
Explores why Enterprise AI is an engineering challenge, not the end of software engineering, emphasizing system integration and control.
Explains why tech leaders should adopt proven solutions instead of building custom systems, focusing on cost, maintenance, and competitive advantage.
Analysis of cognitive debt in AI-driven development, comparing manual and infrastructural solutions proposed by researchers and platforms.
Explores how AI boosts coding speed but highlights alignment as the true bottleneck in software development.
Explores the value of caring deeply about craft in tech, contrasting human attention to detail with generative AI's lack of care.
Explores the value of caring deeply about craft in tech roles like design and writing, especially against generative AI's rise.
A blog post advocating for reading academic papers as a key learning method in tech, sharing personal experiences and tips.
An analysis of how AI is transforming software development, shifting focus from building to planning and judgment.
Martin Fowler discusses AI's impact on programming, the virtue of laziness in software development, and the risk of losing abstraction skills.
Analysis of AI coding agent criticism, arguing that non-users' abstract critiques lack practical experience.
A guide to Python development workflows in the AI era, focusing on FastAPI, AWS, and efficient merge request practices.
Analysis of METR paper measuring AI's ability to complete long software tasks, showing LLM time horizons doubling every seven months.
Analysis of why the FDE (Founding Developer Experience) role is becoming less desirable despite high demand, based on engineer feedback.
