There's a diagram making the rounds that splits the world into "prompt engineering" and "loop engineering." The pitch: stop writing prompts one at a time and let the agent drive. Set a goal, fire…

Internal platforms used to be the exotic option. Now they are the default. A December 2025 Platform Engineering survey of 518 organizations found that nearly 90% of enterprises run internal…

The cloud-runtime question for enterprise Claude is settled. AWS shops route through Amazon Bedrock. Google Cloud shops route through Vertex AI. Direct deployments now sit inside the customer's…

Every working stack is the residue of failures the operator did not see coming. The Saturday piece showed the architecture as it stands now. This piece is the inverse — the five specific incidents…

Most "AI is expensive" discourse is vague. The pieces that quote real numbers usually quote enterprise tier list prices for tools the writer does not personally run. The pieces that talk about…

The dotfiles piece from May 22 named hooks as one component of a personal AI stack and moved on. They deserve more than a passing mention. Hooks are the primitive that turns taste into code — the…

Yesterday's piece prescribed building a personal AI stack instead of waiting for the enterprise plan. The natural objection — "fine, but what does that actually look like" — deserves a concrete…

Every senior engineer who has shipped meaningful work in the last thirty years has carried a personal dev environment with them. Emacs configs, vim plugins, shell aliases, dotfiles repos, custom…

The current "Hermes Agent vs Claude Code" framing is the wrong comparison. The two tools live at different layers of the coding agent stack, and most of the YouTube hot takes treating them as…

Anthropic added the /goal command to Claude Code in v2.1.139. You set a completion condition; the agent keeps working across turns; a second model reads the transcript and decides whether the…

The first time you trim an eval because it costs too much to run, you have started letting the pricing model design your agent. The problem with token pricing for AI is not magnitude — tokens…

A post hit the HN front page this morning titled "I'm going back to writing code by hand". It documents archiving seven months of vibe-coded work on a Kubernetes GPU TUI called k10s and rewriting…

A recent piece called "The Bottleneck Was Never the Code" makes the right argument at the right time. Coding agents shift the constraint from typing to coordination. Organizational context — the…

Editor's note (2026-05-16): Lars Faye pushed back in the LinkedIn comments that I mischaracterized his prescription as "type code by hand" — his actual position is periodic abstinence from LLM…

Yanli Liu's "The 4 Lines Every CLAUDE.md Needs" makes a real point. The 4 lines, derived from Andrej Karpathy's January 2026 thread on agent failure modes, all express the same insight: behavioral…

Count how many times your agent told you "you're right" today. Count "good catch." Count "I should have noticed that." Now ask yourself how many of those corrections will survive into tomorrow's…

The software development landscape just shifted. While most teams are still debating whether AI coding assistants are worth the investment, a growing cohort of engineers is shipping complete…

I can remember back to when I was a junior developer on my team, struggling with a complex refactoring task that involved updating tests, modifying implementation code, and ensuring security…