The Year of the AI-Augmented Developer
2025 starts with coding agents in every IDE and the profession redefining itself in real-time
Essays and notes on AI, software engineering, developer tools, systems, and the shape of modern product building.
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Workflow, Not Your Job
The shift from assistants to agents is the biggest architectural change since microservices
The Tech I’m Watching in 2025
AI agents, MCP, Zig’s momentum, and the frameworks that survived the hype
2024: The Year AI Became Infrastructure
AI moved from experiment to expectation—here’s what actually mattered
Advent of Code 2024: Why Zig Is My Weapon of Choice This Year
Manual memory management without the pain of C—Zig is the perfect learning-by-doing language
AI-Generated Code Is Creating a Testing Crisis Nobody Talks About
We’re generating code faster than we can verify it—and our testing practices haven’t caught up
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet Is the Best Coding Model Nobody Expected
How a ‘mid-tier’ model became the developer’s choice for code generation and analysis
The Container Security Landscape Every Developer Should Understand
Your Dockerfile is probably a security liability—here’s how to fix it
Gleam Might Be the Language the BEAM VM Deserved All Along
Erlang’s runtime with a modern type system and friendly syntax—what’s not to love?
The Observability Stack Is Consolidating and That’s Good
OpenTelemetry won—now Grafana, Datadog, and everyone else are building on the same foundation