A risky pattern is emerging: teams build products with AI agents, then forget to build the boring screens, logs, and manual controls around them.
Topic
AI Engineering
A collection of 11 issues
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.
I learned this building an agent pipeline. An engineer agent would implement a feature, then a reviewer agent was supposed to check the work.
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 first reaction most leaders have to AI is to plan. Figure out a strategy first, then act. The problem is that the tools
A founder of a growing startup told me this recently. They're under pressure from investors to reach a certain ARR, but the
The AI wave has split software development into two speeds. On one side are developers running multiple Claude Code instances in parallel, experimenting with
In 2010, hosting was a solved problem. You no longer needed to set up servers. A cloud account, and you were good to go.
Throughout software development history, we have kept trying to hide complexity behind black boxes. JavaScript frameworks abstracted away how browsers render pages. WYSIWYG editors
I was cautious about flooding a code repository with documentation. There should be documentation close to the code, but in a limited and intentional