Writing

• Building a slide deck with pencil.dev and Claude Design madewithlove 15 Jun

  A head-to-head of pencil.dev vs Claude Design on the same markdown input. Claude Design produced the more polished deck and handled speaker notes; pencil.dev still wins for iterative UI work where direct manipulation matters.

• If only AI can operate your product, you have already lost control 10 Jun

  A risky pattern is emerging: teams build products with AI agents, then forget to build the boring screens, logs, and manual controls around them.

• Stop letting documentation rot madewithlove 10 Jun

  Five types of documentation, five different AI leverage stories. The question isn’t whether to involve AI in your docs; it’s where each type belongs and how much maintenance you can hand off.

• My First Personal AI Agent - J.A.R.V.I.S. 15 May

  Since I started using Claude Code, I've wanted to build a truly autonomous agent: one that keeps working when I walk away from my desk.

• Your engineering practice as an agentic pipeline 12 May

  Last week we had a message from a user asking about a Safari bug. The bug has been lingering for a while. I'

• If the guardrail is a line in a prompt, the model can ignore it ... and eventually will 28 Apr

  I learned this building an agent pipeline. An engineer agent would implement a feature, then a reviewer agent was supposed to check the work.

• Agentic engineering is a bottleneck madewithlove 17 Apr

  The standard AI-assisted dev loop has created a new bottleneck: us. Peter Eysermans describes how deterministic orchestration via n8n, with GitHub as shared memory, gets the human off the loop without sacrificing quality.

• Agent teams aren't there yet 8 Apr

  Claude Code shipped a Teams feature. Give a group of specialised agents a task and let them tackle it together. An orchestrator coordinates, and

• The cost of coming back to a piece of code has plummeted 2 Apr

  We used to put a lot of effort into even the smallest code change. Coming back to it afterwards was expensive. Coding is no

• The disconnect between management and engineering madewithlove 1 Apr

  A mobile app, past its usefulness, was days from being phased out. One email reversed the decision. No discussion. No input from engineering. This is what happens when decision-making drifts too far from the work.