Building Your Own Tools
Configuration is the tax you pay for not knowing who your user is. It has always been priced into the cost of building software, so we stopped noticing it was there. Build something for exactly one …
Agentic Development
brake: Giving the Consumer a Representative in the Working Tree
An agent decides it is done when the checks it can run come back green. Every one of those checks is a question about the repository it is standing in. The team that generates a client from your …
Tropism: Architecture the Agentic Loop Can Actually Check
Types made “this value is a string” checkable. Tests made behaviour checkable. Nothing ever made “the API layer must not talk to the data layer” checkable — cheaply, across …
Code Review After the Pull Request
The pull request was built for a world where humans wrote most of the code. We don’t live there anymore. The pull request as a unit of review is a recent invention. GitHub shipped it in 2008. …
Vibe Coding
Vibe Coding is an innovative approach to software development that emphasizes creativity, flow, and emotional engagement in the coding process. It encourages developers to tap into their intuition and …