The Code Nobody Reads
Line-by-line review is going away. Whatever replaces it has to earn the trust reading used to provide.
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8 posts in the last 90 days · newest 28 Sept
Brownfield Agentic Engineering
What it takes to run agents in a codebase older than the team
13 min read
Agentic Skill Decay
Agents can finish the task without teaching you anything. Building expertise now has to be deliberate.
16 min read
Human judgment doesn't leave the software factory. It relocates.
A field guide to building a software factory that still has an owner.
20 min read
Practical Loop Engineering
Goals, loops, and the discipline of not delegating your judgment
12 min read
Loop Engineering
Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent.
11 min read
Long-running Agents
A long-running AI agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks.
18 min read
Is the IDE dead?
How Agent orchestration is replacing the editor as the center of developer work
6 min read
14 More lessons from 14 years at Google
This time about teams, trust, and the systems around the code.
10 min read
How to write a good spec for AI agents
How to structure, plan, and iterate for high-performance coding agents
31 min read
How Good Is AI at Coding React (Really)?
A data-driven look at what AI can and can’t do for React developers - and what you can do about it
18 min read