software-engineering
61 essays tagged software-engineering
Jul 31, 2026
You Are Underspending on Tokens, Not Overspending
2 min read
Jul 30, 2026
Synchronous Cloud Development Is the Next Wave
2 min read
Jul 29, 2026
Running Out of Tokens Is a Buy Signal
2 min read
Jul 28, 2026
Generation Is Solved. Merging Is Not
2 min read
Jul 27, 2026
Review Needs a Computer, Not a Diff
2 min read
Jul 25, 2026
Merging Code Nobody Understands Is the Real Risk
2 min read
Jul 25, 2026
Developers Want Raw Access, Not a Wrapper
2 min read
Jul 21, 2026
Every CTO Is Asking How to Move Engineering Work to the Cloud
2 min read
Jul 19, 2026
Get the Credentials Off the Laptop
2 min read
Jul 18, 2026
The Cowboy Developer Era Is Ending
2 min read
Jul 15, 2026
The Slowest Part of Your Agent Is the Git Clone
2 min read
Jul 12, 2026
Your Agent Instructions Are Rotting
2 min read
Jul 11, 2026
No Human Should See the PR Until It Has Been Beat Up
2 min read
Jul 10, 2026
Spend Two Tokens Defending Code for Every One You Spend Writing It
2 min read
Jul 7, 2026
Software Factories Run on Pre-Prod
2 min read
Jul 6, 2026
Review the Session, Not Just the Diff
2 min read
Jul 3, 2026
The IDE Is Going Away, and the Cloud Is Where Agents Run
3 min read
Jun 29, 2026
Remote Teams Run on Written Decisions, Not Hallway Conversations
2 min read
Jun 28, 2026
Code Became Ephemeral, and Quality Became Blast Radius
3 min read
Jun 24, 2026
Investing in the Wrong Part of the Harness Is the Real Mistake
2 min read
Jun 22, 2026
A Real VM Is the Primitive for Cloud Coding Agents
2 min read
Jun 18, 2026
The Orchestrator Is Where Your Tokens Go to Die
2 min read
Jun 14, 2026
The Individual Contributor Picks the Model, and That Is the Cost Problem
2 min read
Jun 12, 2026
Hire the Engineer Who Wants to Sell
2 min read
Jun 11, 2026
You Cannot Measure Progress on Work You Never Defined
3 min read
Jun 10, 2026
Kill the MCP, Ship the CLI
2 min read
Jun 7, 2026
Ship the Agent Specs as Code, Not as Database Rows
2 min read
Jun 5, 2026
Prototype on MCP, Productionize in Code
3 min read
Jun 3, 2026
The In-House Tool Dies When Its Builder Leaves
2 min read
Jun 2, 2026
The Chaos in Coding Agents Is Our Friend
2 min read
Jun 1, 2026
Buy the Integration Until It Breaks
3 min read
May 29, 2026
The Single Pane of Glass Is a Custom App, Not a Chat Window
2 min read
May 28, 2026
Own the Compute Layer or Pay Someone Else's Margin Forever
2 min read
May 26, 2026
Controllability Beats Magic Every Time
4 min read
May 25, 2026
Cloud Dev Environments Are the Unlock for Parallel Agent Work
3 min read
May 24, 2026
The Agent Lab Replaces the Agent Deploy
3 min read
May 22, 2026
The 4X Mandate Without a Measuring Stick
2 min read
May 6, 2026
The Agent Harness Problem
2 min read
May 2, 2026
The Atomic Agent Mesh: Architecture, Build-vs-Buy, and the Review Layer
2 min read
Apr 26, 2026
Context Engineering Is the Hard Problem
14 min read
Apr 24, 2026
The Codebase Is the Territory. The Agent Needs a Map
2 min read
Apr 9, 2026
The Operationalization Gap: Where AI Demos Go to Die
2 min read
Mar 21, 2026
The Algorithm Should Be Inspectable
2 min read
Mar 9, 2026
Sessions Replace Tasks, Runs, and Threads
2 min read
Mar 6, 2026
Code Review Becomes the Bottleneck
3 min read
Mar 4, 2026
The Agent Is the Primitive, Not the Automation
2 min read
Mar 2, 2026
Start With Workflows, Not Roles
2 min read
Feb 28, 2026
Automating Knowledge Work Is Software Engineering
2 min read
Feb 25, 2026
Agents Are Software, Not Prompts
2 min read
Feb 19, 2026
Rise of the Agents: An AI Coding Ecosystem Map
3 min read
Feb 15, 2026
Claude Code Just Got a Serious Upgrade, and I Can't Stop Using It
4 min read
Feb 11, 2026
Measuring Developer Performance (And Why AI Might Make It Worse)
3 min read
Dec 24, 2025
Put AI on Defense, Not Just Offense
2 min read
Dec 24, 2025
Why "Good Enough" Code Wins
4 min read
Dec 21, 2025
AI Code Is Not Slop
2 min read
Dec 19, 2025
The Offense-Only Problem with AI Coding
2 min read
Dec 10, 2025
I Asked 399 Developers for Their One Wish. Here's What They Said
10 min read
Sep 11, 2025
The Future of AI Coding: Beyond Tools to True Autonomous Development
2 min read
Sep 5, 2025
Democratizing Software Engineering
2 min read
Sep 4, 2025
The Three Tiers of AI Coding Adoption
2 min read
Jun 11, 2025
AI-First Software Development: Redefining How We Build Software
5 min read
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