AI Coding Agents Need a Source of Truth
Bigger prompts do not fix bad agent plans. A good agent workflow starts with a small brief, human review, task sizing, and checks against concrete artifacts.
Blogs
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Good CLI Design Is Mostly Silence
· cli
A CLI is not only a user interface. It is also an API for scripts. Quiet mode, stdout, stderr, colors, and exit codes need clear contracts.
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The Build Cache Was Not Broken
Docker cache problems are often not Docker problems. They are usually Dockerfile problems: unstable inputs, bad COPY order, and layers that depend on too much.
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How to Cook Claude Code
· llm
Claude Opus 4.7 scores 87.6% on SWE-Bench Verified. Your daily experience probably doesn’t reflect that. The gap isn’t the model — it’s the kitchen. Three levers, a few hygiene habits, and the same model goes from autocomplete to autonomous shipping.
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It's Not the Model. It's the System Prompt You Never Wrote.
· llm
Most complaints about coding agents are really complaints about empty context. CLAUDE.md, distilled project docs, and a few well-named slash commands turn the same model from ‘crappy autocomplete’ into something that runs unattended for hours and ships.
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I Built an FPS in Godot. My Daughter Is Building the World.
A backend engineer with zero game dev experience picked up Godot 4 and built a horror FPS from scratch — procedural audio, volumetric fog, enemy AI state machines, the whole thing. Then a 13-year-old played it for two minutes, grabbed a tablet, and decided she’s designing every monster, boss, and piece of lore. The game just got a creative director.
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Preview Environments Are Easy to Want and Hard to Operate
The pitch is irresistible — per-PR environments, live links, instant feedback. Then someone needs twenty restarts to get a multi-service stack running, and the pitch meets operational reality.
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The CI Pipeline Nobody Owns
Your CI pipeline is building the same Docker image three times per run, a dependency bot just DDoS’d your runner fleet, and nobody’s going to fix it — because nobody owns it. How shared pipelines corrode without a single bad decision.
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We Added Monitoring to Everything (Except the Thing That Kept Breaking)
Production has dashboards, alerts, and structured logging. Your test environment has SSH. Your CI runners have a re-run button. That gap is quietly eating your engineering velocity alive.
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Building an IDE Plugin the Same Week You Build the Language
Most languages ship tooling years after the compiler. I built the Yar IntelliJ plugin in parallel with the compiler itself — 19 commits tracking language changes in real time. Here’s why DX-first language development changes how you think about design.