The Code Monkey is Dead
The scarce skill used to be typing the lines. That job is gone. The job that remains is knowing what to build, what to kill, and putting your name on what ships.
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Ask it How
To build with agentic, you build with agentic. The harness is Claude Code or Cursor. The trick is treating it as a conversation, and asking your assistant how.
Read more →Does This Need YOUR Touch?
AI can research, outline, and draft. Some messages still have to be written by you. Pause and ask whether this one does.
Read more →The Weekend I Built What I Would Have Rented
I needed IAB-compliant podcast download stats for my self-hosted show. Instead of renting a SaaS forever, I spent a weekend and some tokens building exactly what I needed.
Read more →Two AI Agents Whose Only Job Is to Kill My Ideas
I built two agents whose entire purpose is to talk me out of bad ideas before I burn weekends on them. Five out of six times, they succeeded.
Read more →You Didn't Review the Framework Either
"I won't ship code I didn't review" is a good instinct pointed the wrong way. You didn't review your vendor directory either, and it shares a public fingerprint with a few million other sites.
Read more →Nobody Is Reviewing This Code
I stopped reading AI-generated code months ago. Here's what replaced code review, and why the human in the loop is quietly turning into a rubber stamp.
Read more →The Excuse Ran Out of Road
A Sr. Technical Program Manager who writes zero lines of code is the top AI user on his team, and in the top 10% of the company, developers included. The role was never the excuse.
Read more →I've Never Lost Sleep Over an Agent
AI agents and developers are not the same thing to manage. One costs tokens when it fails. The other can cost you sleep.
Read more →People Don't Get Software Updates. Or Do They?
Technology moves on a six-week cycle. People used to move much slower. AI just changed the install speed. Here's why every project—even the ones you kill—is still a permanent upgrade.
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