Rethinking Jira, Confluence, and Git for Multi-Layer Products Software teams have spent the last decade debating where requirements should live. Jira and Confluence became the default answer for most organizations — until AI-assisted development started exposing real cracks in that model. With coding agents now consuming, generating, and acting on requirements directly, it’s worth revisiting […]
Read More →You can learn operating systems, compilers, and machine learning in a computer science degree. But nobody sits you down and shows you how to actually use your computer well. That gap has a name: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, a free course from MIT. Here’s what it is, why it matters, and how […]
Read More →Specs and change proposals live in the repo; Jira still owns Epics, Stories, and the board. You can do both without maintaining two truths: tie one OpenSpec change folder to one Story, leave tasks.md out of Sub-tasks, and link every ticket to openspec/changes/…. Most organizations will not retire Jira; this split is how you get SDD anyway without […]
Read More →Claude Code can show a status line at the bottom of the terminal: a thin bar that updates as you work. It is easy to ignore until you start hitting context limits or wondering what a session actually cost. The bar keeps that kind of signal in peripheral vision so the main transcript stays focused on the […]
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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