You give your AI coding agent a task. It gets to work. Thirty tool calls later you have code — and it’s not what you needed. The agent understood the words but missed the intent. It made a dozen small decisions that individually seemed reasonable, and collectively built the wrong thing. This isn’t a capability […]
Read More →AI coding agents are fast, but they cut corners. Agent Skills is an open-source project by Addy Osmani that gives agents the same structured workflows senior engineers follow, from spec to ship. This post breaks down how it works, explains the Google engineering principles it builds on (Hyrum’s Law, Chesterton’s Fence, the Beyonce Rule, Shift […]
Read More →Table of contents Here’s something that bothered me for quite a while before I found a fix: every time an AI coding agent runs a shell command, the full output gets dumped into the context window. All of it. The 262-line test suite output where every single test passed. The verbose git log with commit metadata you’ll […]
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