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Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
Once a team adopts AI coding assistants, the first gains show up…
Fragments: April 14
I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there…
Principles of Mechanical Sympathy
Over the past decade, hardware has seen tremendous advances, from unified memory…
Harness engineering for coding agent users
The term harness has emerged as a shorthand to mean everything in…
Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops
Should humans stay out of the software development process and vibe code,…
Context Engineering for Coding Agents
The number of options we have to configure and enrich a coding…
Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent
There’s no shortage of reports on how AI coding assistants, agents, and…
My favorite musical discoveries of 2025
I listen to a lot of music, it's a constant accompaniment to…
Fragments: January 8
Anthropic report on how their AI is changing their own software development…





