Field notes from the AI-native SDLC.

What I'm learning shipping agent-built software in production: debugging loops, throughput math, the metrics that actually move.

Jul 7, 2026AISoftware Engineering

The AI-Native Way to Organize Software Work

  1. Jul 7, 2026AIllm

    The problem with "does this look right?"

  2. Jul 3, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Recent AI News In Case You Missed It: Gated Models, Cheap Coders, and the Agent Stack

  3. Jul 2, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    A Gentle Introduction to Agent Harnesses

  4. Jul 1, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    The Spec Is the Source of Truth Now (Mostly)

  5. Jun 30, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    What Mattered Last Week in AI Engineering In Case You Missed it

  6. Jun 29, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Building a Harness for Autonomous Coding Agents

  7. Jun 18, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Designing In-App Help

    The Case for a Contextual Drawer and a Shared Glossary

  8. Jun 16, 2026AIai agents

    Four Infrastructure Pieces That Quietly Decide Whether Agent Products Scale

  9. Jun 15, 2026AIai agents

    Three Products That Treat Agents as Members of the Team, Not Bots

  10. Jun 15, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    A Week Where Single-API LLM Stacks Got Harder to Defend

  11. Jun 12, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Time-Lapse Engineering

    How a High-Velocity SDLC Exposes the Invisible

  12. Jun 11, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Ten Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 2

  13. Jun 8, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Ten Failure Modes from a Year of Running an Agent Harness — Part 1

  14. Jun 5, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Why SQLite Bans AI Contributions: A Case Study in Open-Source Quality Engineering

  15. Jun 3, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Two Quiet Results, One Shared Lesson: Where Capability Gains Are Coming From Now

  16. Jun 2, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    The Agent Ops Stack, Explained: Two New Tools and the Layer They Belong To

  17. May 19, 2026

    The Lazy Boundary

  18. May 14, 2026

    Rebuilding the SDLC for AI Throughput

  19. May 14, 2026Pythonpytest

    Anatomy of a Two-Day Pytest Debugging Loop