#agentic-development

Focus on the Solution, Not the AI Hype

AI hype promises autonomous software factories and imminent AGI. In the customer trenches every day, the real work looks very different.

How I'm Building Software in August 2026

I threw out my prescriptive agent harness and rebuilt it around Anthropic's v5 guidance. The migration was miserable. The results are worth it.

Is ASCII Art the True Turing Test?

Two frontier models couldn't draw an ASCII map of the US. Why LLMs read ASCII art fine but can't write it, and what that says about the jagged frontier.

How You Do Something Matters

A horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent.

The End of Coding Won't Be in 2026

Eric Schmidt says programming is ending. A programmer from 1945 would say it ended forty years ago. Both are right, and both are wrong.

Dismantling an Agentic System - Part 1

I'm a HUGE BELIEVER in people being able to leverage tools better when they understand how they work. Black boxes don't breed confidence in users. So let's do that with Agentic Development Systems.

Don't Let The Line Count Fool You. This Ain't Easy (yet)

I can't remember the last time I went a day without seeing an article about '[Google has 25% of code generated by AI](https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/)' or '[GitHub Copilot is writing 46% of code](https://github.blog/2023-06-27-the-economic-impact-of-the-ai-powered-developer-lifecycle-and-lessons-from-github-copilot/)' or '[Amazon Q has saved 4,500 developer-years](https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/)'. The knowledge isn't in the line count. It's in how they got there.

The Vibe Coding Executive Delusion

AI tools are genuinely transforming software development. But the flood of executives claiming to ship 10,000 lines of code while running companies reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what we're building.