“Keep It Simple” is old advice. It got interesting again the moment anyone could generate 500 lines of code in 30 seconds. KISS says systems and tasks should be as straightforward as possible. No unnecessary complexity. Fewer moving parts, fewer things to break, fewer things to hold in your head. It was good advice when […]
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 →OpenSpec is an open-source framework that brings spec-driven development to AI coding agents. Write specs in Markdown, agree on the plan before writing code, and keep your project’s requirements versioned in Git. Three commands — propose, apply, archive — and your agent finally builds what you actually want. Table of Contents You’ve been there. You […]
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 […]
Read More →If you use both Cursor and Claude Dev/Code, you’ve probably noticed they both want their own configuration folders (.cursor and .claude). Keeping your custom commands, rules, and skills in sync between them usually means a lot of copying and pasting. Here is a simple way to centralize everything in one .agents folder and use symlinks to keep both tools […]
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