In earlier days, we didn't want to spend our attention on machine code or assembly, and later memory management an garbage collection. So we invented tools and abstractions so that we didn't have to…

As a developer, something that contributes to feelings of burnout is constantly dealing with faults, and software that has not yet been completed. An antidote to this I find, is to carve out some…

A few months ago, it was easy to find AI sceptics among prominent programmers. Just over a year ago DHH was interviewed on the Lex Friedman Podcast. Now appearing again on the recent episode, DHH's…

The general consensus, and common sense seem to dictate that the more we lean on LLMs for coding, the weaker our ability to code by hand will become. I feel like it's something all experienced…

Welcome to my blog. This is where I intend (intend, not promise) to put my (hopefully) regular writings in an effort to be more intentional about what I'm working on and thinking about, communicate…

AI coding agents work inside chat sessions. A chat session is good at local reasoning - you give it a task, it works through the problem, it produces code. But the session itself is ephemeral. When…

What is AS Notes? AS Notes brings markdown editing with [[wikilink]] for notes, documentation, blogs and wikis directly into VS Code and compatible editors (e.g. Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf). With…

Referencing this MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! (via Hacker News), I wanted to highlight what I think is the key principle behind this that will be true for the future of working with AI Agents: You…

The extension source is available on GitHub and the extension available on the VS Code Marketplace. Where We Left Off In a previous post, I introduced VS Code Agent Kanban. The key idea in this…

VS Code Agent Kanban is available on VS Code Marketplace | GitHub Note: VS Code Agent Kanban has had a major update since this post to add an optional Git worktree workflow (detailed here),…