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We Gave AI the Keys to Production. Now What?
AI coding tools and autonomous agents are shipping faster than the guardrails meant to govern them. Here is where the risks are and what thoughtful adoption looks like.
AI agents in monorepos: what to configure differently from a single-product repo
A practical guide to running AI coding agents safely and efficiently in a monorepo, including the wins, the configuration changes, and the common failure modes.
Why AI Coding Has Split Software Engineers Into Two Camps
Why AI coding divides engineers less on capability than on trust, identity, incentives, and what they think the job really is.
Why Agile Teams Still End Up Doing Waterfall
Why many teams use agile tooling and ceremonies but still deliver in large, slow, phase-gated batches, and how to get back to real fast-feedback delivery.
Never Roll Back, Always Fix Forward
Why fix-forward is usually safer than rolling back when deployments touch databases, background jobs, and other non-idempotent state.
Using Agent Skills with AI Agentic Coding: A Practical Workflow
A practical guide to structuring skills so AI coding agents produce faster, safer, and more reproducible software delivery.
How I Started Coding by Voice Prompts (and Why I Still Press Enter Manually)
How remote work made voice-first coding practical for me, where it breaks down in open offices, and why I still review every transcribed prompt before sending it.