A Friendly Field Guide to 88 Timeless Principles That Shape How We Build Software. View the interactive searchable html page Foreword Software engineering looks like a young craft, but the patterns that cause projects to thrive or stumble are surprisingly ancient. Over decades, engineers, managers, scientists, and even satirists have noticed the same things happening […]
Read More →I like Claude Code, but I don’t need it signing its name on every commit I make. By default, Claude Code appends a Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> git trailer to every commit message. If you’ve never noticed it, run git log –format=”%b” | grep “Co-Authored” on any repo where you’ve used it. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Here’s what happens once […]
Read More →I’ve spent the last few months living in Claude Code. If you’re wondering if it’s worth the hype, the answer is yes—but probably not for the reasons you think. It isn’t just a better autocomplete. It’s more like a competent pair programmer that actually reads your whole codebase, runs your terminal commands, and never needs […]
Read More →As we move deeper into the era of AI-native development, the “chat box” is quickly becoming the floor, not the ceiling. As a heavy user of Cursor, I’ve spent the last year thinking about how to move from simple prompt-response cycles to true agentic workflows. The core of this evolution lies in how we manage […]
Read More →If you’ve been building with LLMs over the last year, you’ve likely hit the “Agent Wall.” You build a cool agent, give it a massive system prompt, and it works… until it doesn’t. As you add more capabilities, the context window gets bloated, the agent gets confused, and porting that logic to another platform (like […]
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