Writing from inside the AI-native SDLC.

What I'm learning shipping agent-built software in production: debugging loops, throughput math, the metrics that actually move.

Jul 22, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

Learnings from an Expensive AI-Driven Failure

  1. Jul 17, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    Best Practices Are Now for the Model, Too

  2. Jul 16, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Your Agentic Swarm Will Build a Spaghetti Monster (Unless You Draw the Boundaries First)

  3. Jul 15, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    This Week in AI Engineering: GPT-5.6's Tiers, Tuning the Harness, and Agents That Pay (and Get Caught)

  4. Jul 9, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    This Week in AI: 150 PRs a Week, a $234B SaaS Warning, and Agents That Can Pay

  5. Jul 7, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    The AI-Native Way to Organize Software Work

  6. Jul 7, 2026AIllm

    The problem with "does this look right?"

  7. Jul 3, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Recent AI News In Case You Missed It: Gated Models, Cheap Coders, and the Agent Stack

  8. Jul 2, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    A Gentle Introduction to Agent Harnesses

  9. Jul 1, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    The Spec Is the Source of Truth Now (Mostly)

  10. Jun 30, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    What Mattered Last Week in AI Engineering In Case You Missed it

  11. Jun 29, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Building a Harness for Autonomous Coding Agents

  12. Jun 18, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Designing In-App Help

    The Case for a Contextual Drawer and a Shared Glossary

  13. Jun 16, 2026AIai agents

    Four Infrastructure Pieces That Quietly Decide Whether Agent Products Scale

  14. Jun 15, 2026AIai agents

    Three Products That Treat Agents as Members of the Team, Not Bots

  15. Jun 15, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    A Week Where Single-API LLM Stacks Got Harder to Defend

  16. Jun 12, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Time-Lapse Engineering

    How a High-Velocity SDLC Exposes the Invisible

  17. Jun 11, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Ten Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 2

  18. Jun 8, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Ten Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 1

  19. Jun 5, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Why SQLite Bans AI Contributions: A Case Study in Open-Source Quality Engineering