Impeccable: The Design Vocabulary AI Was Missing
The bottleneck isn't AI capability - it's that developers lack design vocabulary. Impeccable bridges the gap, and the Tessl benchmarks prove it: 1.59x improvement over baseline.
Read more →Your AGENTS.md is a Liability
Frontier models top out at 68% compliance with 500 instructions. Every rule you add makes every other rule less likely to be followed. The research explains why.
Read more →All the Liability, None of the Protection
AI coding tools create a legal paradox: the code you ship likely can't be copyrighted, but it might infringe someone else's. All the liability, none of the protection.
Read more →Stop Designing in Pixels
Tokens are nouns. Patterns are verbs. The missing layer is grammar: a shared vocabulary that spans Figma, web, and native without breaking when someone ships a 'small' change.
Read more →When AI Isn't Fit for Purpose: Lessons from Salesforce's Agentforce Pivot
Salesforce quietly walked back autonomous AI agents to deterministic scripting. The pattern reveals when LLMs work - and when they don't.
Read more →10 Tips from Inside the Claude Code Team
Boris Cherny followed up his personal workflow with tips from across the team. Same tool, different people, different approaches. The patterns worth stealing.
Read more →How the Creator of Claude Code Uses Claude Code
Boris Cherny shared his workflow for the tool he built. The setup is surprisingly vanilla. The philosophy is worth studying.
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 →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 →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 →The Scaling Trap: When Startups Eat Their Own
At around 30 employees, growing companies either mature or become toxic. Here's the playbook for organizational dysfunction - and why your engineering leaders keep leaving.
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 →C# 14 and .NET 10: Less Boilerplate, More Clarity
The latest C# release continues its quiet war on ceremony with field-backed properties, extension members, and smarter spans. Here's what matters and what doesn't.
Read more →C# Scripts: The Python Killer You Already Know
.NET 10's shebang support and file-based apps turn C# into a scripting language. No more context-switching to Python for quick scripts.
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 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 →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.
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