SEP 1, 2026
"Luxurious" Software Development with AI
If you ask any even slightly jaded software developer, they've likely worked on a project where having "nice things" cost too much developer time according to...
Field notes & project updates
Writing about the journey towards AI-Native Software Engineering in the weird new world of the LLM Coding Era.
Field Notes
SEP 3, 2026 · Latest
A Definition of AI-Native Software Engineering
So, after trying out a few different terms to capture the shift in software engineering caused by LLM coding models, I believe AI-Native Software Engineering...
AUG 18, 2026
You have more chances to fix your code with AI
It used to be that writing code and tests was where you spent most of your development time budget. Depending on your role, PR reviews of other people's code...
AUG 16, 2026
Escaping the AI slowdown trap
You know the feeling - you start a new project with AI-Native software development and you're absolutely flying. Knocking down features like they are pins in a...
AUG 15, 2026
The one rule for working with AI in a team
While there are a lot of things one can learn about how to more effectively use AI with a team - there is really just one hard and fast rule:
AUG 14, 2026
Mr. Meeseeks (Metaphor for AI)
I'm not a big Rick & Morty enthusiast, but a colleague pointed me to this episode as a metaphor for working with coding agents, and boy, does it fit.
AUG 14, 2026
AI is planting the seeds of its own destruction
One of the obviously exceptional things about the current AI investment boom that we're in is how much money is being dumped into AI and LLMs, and how much...
Project Updates
SEP 4, 2026 · Latest
Habitizer Case Study: What does an end-to-end iOS App Build look like?
Habitizer was a small itch-to-scratch project that I built as a case study to see what an end-to-end build for an intentionally simple SwiftUI iOS app would...