Yesterday
- Last month I wrote about porting JustHTML from Python to JavaScript using Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in a few hours while also buying a Christmas tree and watching Knives Out …
This week
- If you ask people why they are using AI (or want other people to use it) you get a ton of different answers. Typically none of them contain the real reason, which is that using AI is dirt cheap. Between paying a fair amount to get something done and paying very little to give...
- Mcp-cli is a lightweight CLI that allows dynamic discovery of MCP, reducing token consumption while making tool interactions more efficient for AI coding agents....
- All You Need is Specs? Today I’m releasing whenwords, a relative time formatting library that contains no code. whenwords provides five functions that convert between timestamps and human-readable strings, like turning a UNIX timestamp into “3 hours ago”. There are many...
- Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development practice. Most usage is for debugging and helping understand existing code Notable increase in using it for implementing new features Developers using it for 59% of their work and getting 50%...
- Pay attention to the other ways to model similarity and filter search results...
- In the near future, high-leverage developers look like async-first managers running parallel AI coding agents. The skills that make someone a strong tech lead or manager translate directly to AI coding - because at scale, it stops being just a context problem and becomes a...
- Matthias Ott shared a link to a post from Anthropic titled “Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”, which I read because I’m interested in the messy intersection of AI and security. I gotta say: I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything quite like...
- When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure....
- I almost ordered parts for a circuit that would have destroyed itself the instant I powered it on. Instead, an LLM caught the critical flaw in my design, saving me time and money. While I regularly see value in using LLMs in my coding projects, this is the first time I have seen...
- AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review for risk, intent, and accountability....
- Ellis is set up at a big AI conference, ready to draw in the punters to his new company, Pik-Tec. He’s standing in front of a large banner that reads, “AICon: Not just AI, but also a con.” “You should totally buy our AI image generator,” Ellis calls out to an attendee. “No...
- Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving landscape of coding in an AI-driven world....
- In 2026, Agent Harnesses will become essential for building reliable AI systems that can handle complex, multi-day tasks....
Last week
- And you are going to be fine....
- AI coding assistants became game-changers this year, but harnessing them effectively takes skill and structure. Here's my workflow for planning, coding, and collaborating with AI going into 2026....
- As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I shipped. I think AI had a lot to do with it, freeing me up to take on projects that I still wrote probably 60% of the code I shipped this year, but when I used … Continue reading My...
- AI coding assistants have quickly moved from novelty to necessity where up to 90% of software engineers use some kind of AI for coding. But a new paradigm is emerging in software development...
- Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating a Penrose Triangle in CAD A personal book recommendation tool, which used my archive of book reviews, the OpenAI API, and RAG techniques to give me personalized book...
- Howdy folks, can you believe that the year is over? Shocking! I spent December travelling around Sri Lanka with my family, and it was incredible! I published a few pics from our trip. I managed to catch up on a long reading list and, as I do every year, I published my annual...
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