GasTown and the Two Kinds of Multi-Agent
I wrote that 19-agent scaffolding is a trap. Then Yegge shipped Gas Town with 20-30 Claude Code instances. Are these the same thing?
Read more →The Context Wars: Why Your Browser Tools Are Bleeding Tokens
Playwright MCP's 26 tools are killing your context window. Vercel's agent-browser shows a better way: fewer tools, smarter snapshots, 93% less overhead.
Read more →Flux: A Kanban Board That Speaks MCP
Task management designed for AI coding agents. CLI-first, git-native sync, and Model Context Protocol integration.
Read more →The Pin
A lookup table technique that improves search tool hit rates in autonomous loops. The detail that makes specs discoverable.
Read more →The Ralph Wiggum Playbook
The methodology behind autonomous coding loops. Three phases, five files, and the backpressure that makes it converge.
Read more →Tailwind Lost 80% of Revenue. AI Didn't Replace the Developers.
75M monthly downloads. 80% revenue drop. 75% of engineers gone. AI didn't replace developers - it replaced the web as the interface layer. That's worse.
Read more →Anthropic's Walled Garden: The Claude Code Crackdown
Anthropic blocked third-party tools from using Claude subscriptions overnight. OpenCode, xAI, and power users caught in the crossfire. The era of subscription arbitrage is over.
Read more →The Junior Dev Pipeline Problem
Stanford data confirms experienced devs are safe. But if AI replaces the on-ramp, where do future seniors come from?
Read more →Claude Code Hooks: Guardrails That Actually Work
Real footgun stories and the deterministic hooks that would've prevented them. From $30k API key leaks to nuked home directories.
Read more →Claude Code 2.1: The Pain Points? Fixed.
Skills controllability, hooks limitations, plan mode friction - 2.1 addresses the documented pain points. Here's what changed and what's still missing.
Read more →The 19-Agent Trap
Complex AI scaffolding tools appeal to people who understand traditional SDLC. But AI collapses the phases that made those models useful.
Read more →Prompt Engineering Is (Mostly) Dead
The 'prompt engineering' industry was a symptom of early model limitations. Modern LLMs just need you to communicate clearly.
Read more →Guardrails by Default: Why AI Coding's Next Evolution Isn't Smarter Models
Factory AI's Luke predicts the future isn't more powerful models - it's AI that enforces software engineering best practices by default. Here's why that matters more than you think.
Read more →Claude Code's Hidden MCP Flag: 32k Tokens Back
ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_MCP_CLI eliminates MCP tool schema overhead entirely. Undocumented, untested in the wild, but it works. Here's what I found.
Read more →The Alien Tool With No Manual
Andrej Karpathy built the neural networks inside coding assistants. He taught deep learning to a generation. He feels dramatically behind. If the experts are lost, what does that tell us?
Read more →The $0 SaaS Stack: Ship Fast, Pay Later
Convex, Vite, Clerk, shadcn, Cloudflare, Resend. A modern stack where every component has a generous free tier, agents do the heavy lifting, and you don't touch infrastructure until you have paying customers.
Read more →claude-launcher: Model Freedom for Claude Code
A CLI wrapper that lets you swap Claude Code's backend between Anthropic and OpenRouter with a single command. Pick any model, configure role-specific models, and switch between them instantly.
Read more →The Open Source Agentic Moment
Two major open source coding models dropped in 48 hours. Both target Claude Code compatibility. Both MIT licensed. The economics of agentic AI just changed.
Read more →Gemini 3 Flash: The Model That Shouldn't Exist
Top 3 intelligence. Top 5 price. Top speed. Flash beats Pro on SWE-bench and changes the economics of agentic workflows.
Read more →Three Ways to Build Deep Research with Claude
From 20 lines of shell to production apps. Anthropic renamed Claude Code SDK to Agent SDK because deep research is now a first-class use case.
Read more →The Terminal Renaissance
The real revolution isn't AI in your terminal. It's moving at the speed of thought from a single interface. When friction exists, build a CLI.
Read more →Visual Verification: Making Agents Prove Their Work
Screenshots as source of truth, reference comparison to catch agent lies, and video capture for temporal bugs. How multimodal validation changes coding agent workflows.
Read more →Beads: Memory for Your Coding Agents
Steve Yegge's open-source framework gives coding agents session memory and task management. Four weeks old, hundreds of contributors, and already changing workflows.
Read more →GPT-5.2: The Delegation Era Begins
OpenAI's latest model isn't about better prompting - it's about better delegation. What that means for 2026, and how it compares to Opus 4.5.
Read more →claude-tools: A Plugin Marketplace for Claude Code
Six plugins that extend Claude Code with specialized external tools: Gemini for visual analysis, Codex for architecture thinking, Headless for browser automation, Mobile for native app testing, DNS for multi-provider management, and Miro for board reading.
Read more →Divers and CNC Machines: Yegge and Kim on What's Coming
Steve Yegge and Gene Kim explain why Claude Code 'ain't it' yet, why senior engineers are resisting, and what next year's tools will actually look like.
Read more →Claude Code Gets Path-Specific Rules (Cursor Had This First)
Claude Code 2.0.64 adds .claude/rules/ with path matching. It's a welcome addition, but Cursor's had .cursor/rules/ for months. Here's the comparison.
Read more →Denial, Then Admission: Why LLM Quality Drops Are Real
Anthropic denied issues for weeks, then published a postmortem admitting three bugs degraded 16% of Claude requests. The pattern keeps repeating.
Read more →Your Website Is About to Become a Workflow
The human-facing web is dying. Zero-click searches, bot traffic exceeding humans, publishers losing 40%+ traffic. What comes next: an agentic web where sites are API endpoints, not destinations.
Read more →The External Scaffolding Era Is Ending
BMAD, Spec-Kit, Cline - frameworks that compensated for tool limitations. Plan Mode, Cursor 2.0, and Antigravity absorb the patterns natively.
Read more →The LinkedIn Hot Take Problem: Why the AI Discourse Is Backwards
The arguments about vibe coding and junior developers miss what software engineering was always about: shipping products, not typing code.
Read more →12 Factor Agents: Principles for AI That Actually Work
HumanLayer's 12-factor agents codifies what works in production AI: own your context, keep agents small, stay out of the dumb zone.
Read more →Anthropic Bought Bun
Anthropic's first acquisition ever. A $183B AI company just bet their fastest-growing product on a JavaScript runtime. Claude Code hit $1B in 6 months - built on Bun.
Read more →Plan Mode Is Now Mandatory. Auto-Compact Should Be Enabled.
Opus 4.5 shipped Plan Mode as a core workflow. The workarounds are obsolete. And the case for auto-compact finally tips in favor of enabling it.
Read more →Ralph Wiggum: Autonomous Loops for Claude Code
The official Claude Code plugin that lets agents work autonomously for hours. When to use it, when not to, and the philosophy behind letting AI fail repeatedly until it succeeds.
Read more →Claude Code Plugins: Breaking the AI Slop Aesthetic
How Anthropic's new plugin system and frontend-design skill help Claude Code generate distinctive UI instead of generic AI output.
Read more →Agent Harnesses: From DIY Patterns to Product
Anthropic's engineering team published patterns for long-running agents. These same patterns - progress tracking, feature lists, session protocols - are what products like SpecPilot must solve at scale.
Read more →AI-Generated UI Mockups in Your Coding Workflow
Design systems from mockup to code in a single Claude Code session. Use Gemini 3 Pro to generate UI concepts, then implement them directly.
Read more →Opus 4.5 and Tool Search: The Native Fix for MCP Context Bloat
Claude's new model ships with defer_loading for tools. The MCP isolation patterns I built are now (mostly) obsolete.
Read more →From Single Model to Specialized Tooling: Adding React Grab to the Stack
My AI workflow evolved from 'Claude does everything' to specialized tools for each task. React Grab fills the UI extraction gap I didn't know I had.
Read more →The SDLC Is Collapsing Too
The PM/Eng split dissolved into product engineering. Now the traditional software development lifecycle is following suit as coding agents handle multi-hour tasks across planning, building, testing, and deployment.
Read more →The Quiet Advantage: Introverts in Tech
How modern tools transformed my experience as an introverted engineer and tech leader
Read more →Hybrid AI Workflows: Spawning Gemini from Claude Code
Claude Code for development, Gemini 3 Pro for visual analysis, research, and deep thinking. A slash command that routes tasks to the right model.
Read more →Gemini 3: The First Unambiguous #1 in Months
Google's Gemini 3 just broke every benchmark that matters. What that means for the 'AI has hit a wall' narrative, and where it actually helps.
Read more →Finding the Craft in the Chaos: A Stoic Take on Job Loss
What happens when you lose external validation and discover what actually matters: the work itself.
Read more →Product Engineering: The New Superpower
How AI and spec-driven development are fusing product management with engineering, creating a new hybrid role that's transforming how small teams ship software.
Read more →Skills Auto-Activation via Hooks (Does It Solve the Problem?)
Hooks-based skill activation solves context selection (which guidelines? which tools?) but not workflow orchestration. Both patterns have their place.
Read more →Expressing MCP Tools as Code APIs (96% Less Context)
From Chrome DevTools experiment to universal MCP wrapper: progressive discovery works with any server, Skills integration, and smart deduplication
Read more →Claude Skills: The Controllability Problem
Skills are auto-invoked by Claude's judgment. For engineering workflows that need predictability, slash commands give you explicit control.
Read more →The Hiring Mismatch: When 20 Years of Experience Isn't Enough
Why coding interviews optimized for 2010 fail to identify great engineers in 2025, and why orgs can't adapt fast enough.
Read more →When Claude Needs a Second Opinion: Strategic Thinking with Codex
Claude Code loves to jump straight into implementation. Sometimes you need a model that thinks first. Here's how I use Codex for systems thinking and architecture decisions.
Read more →DeepSeek-OCR: Compressing Text by 20x Using Vision
Converting text to images for 20x token compression. Interesting research or production-ready breakthrough? A critical look at the trade-offs.
Read more →Few-Shot Learning for Document Parsing: Training AI on Human Corrections
How I built a self-improving document parser that learns from corrections without fine-tuning. The pragmatic alternative to model training.
Read more →When Not to Use AI: Two Approaches to Building AI-Powered Products
Real-time AI generation vs curated libraries: lessons from building the same product twice with radically different architectures.
Read more →Building Trivista: What AI Coding Actually Solves (and What It Doesn't)
Building a multiplayer trivia app solo with AI coding tools. Here's what worked, what didn't, and the trade-offs no one talks about.
Read more →Cascading AI Pipelines: When One Model Feeds Another
Building a multi-stage AI content pipeline where each generation depends on the last. Lessons from generating thousands of hybrid creatures with resilient error handling.
Read more →Stop Speedrunning Claude Code (Master the Core Loop First)
MCPs, subagents, and automation are tempting. But the developers getting the most from Claude Code aren't rushing to advanced features - they're mastering the fundamentals.
Read more →Vibe Coding a Blog Migration: Ghost to Astro in One Night with Claude Code
Converting a Ghost blog to Astro in a single late-night session with Claude Code, reducing memory usage by 75% while learning what AI coding tools actually solve
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