Posts related to best-practices
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A CTO once told me not to take people's Legos away. I ignored him, solved the team's problems myself, and got exactly what I optimised for: a sound plan and a team that couldn't stand me. In 2026, with agents doing the bricks, this is the lesson that matters.
Read more →Berkeley just built an agent that games AI benchmarks. Karpathy called it months ago. The best coding model doesn't top the charts, the highest-ranked Chinese models disappoint in practice, and the entire leaderboard industry optimizes for the wrong thing.
Read more →Enterprise architecture patterns were designed for a world where code was expensive to write and expensive to change. That world ended. The patterns didn't get the memo.
Read more →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 →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 →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 →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 →Salesforce quietly walked back autonomous AI agents to deterministic scripting. The pattern reveals when LLMs work - and when they don't.
Read more →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 →Boris Cherny shared his workflow for the tool he built. The setup is surprisingly vanilla. The philosophy is worth studying.
Read more →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 arguments about vibe coding and junior developers miss what software engineering was always about: shipping products, not typing code.
Read more →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 →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 →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 →What happens when you lose external validation and discover what actually matters: the work itself.
Read more →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 →.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 →Why coding interviews optimized for 2010 fail to identify great engineers in 2025, and why orgs can't adapt fast enough.
Read more →Real-time AI generation vs curated libraries: lessons from building the same product twice with radically different architectures.
Read more →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 →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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