Development Practices • Sep 03, 2026 Your Legacy Code Isn’t the Problem When a legacy system is grinding your organization down, the instinct is to ask, "How do we modernize this code?" Wrong question.
AI for Developers • Sep 02, 2026 Quit Blabbing, Claude Code! Shorter Answers with Output Styles I wanted to change Claude Code’s wall of text answers. I found output styles, markdown files that control how the agent talks to you.
Development Practices • Sep 01, 2026 How PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus and How We Got It Back Pull request (PR) reviews are one of those engineering practices that almost everyone agrees are important, albeit time-consuming.
Artificial Intelligence • Aug 31, 2026 In the Age of AI, You Need Structure In a world where translation throughput increases, we need structures that can be easily understood and modified by people.
AI for Developers • Aug 30, 2026 AI Code & the Perfectly Implemented Misunderstanding AI-generated code can compile, pass tests, and still solve the wrong problem. Context, client communication, and critical review matter.
Managing Your Team • Aug 29, 2026 I’m Good at Solving Problems. Over-Owning is a Problem. Part of what makes over-owning hard for me to recognize is that it often works. Like, it gets the job done.
AI for Developers • Aug 28, 2026 Atomic Object on AI: MCP Servers Atomic discusses MCP Servers: are they solving a real problem, or reinventing one? Four perspectives on whether they live up to the hype.
Evolving the Industry • Aug 27, 2026 When Did Someone Last Look at the Systems Your Business Depends On? When did someone last look at the systems your business quietly depends on? If the answer is "years" or "never," spend an hour taking a look.
Artificial Intelligence • Aug 26, 2026 2 Years, 2 Swims Around Mackinac Island, & One AI Coach I have now done the 8.2-mile swim around Mackinac Island twice, with an AI as my coach both times: ChatGPT the first year, Claude the second.
Artificial Intelligence • Aug 25, 2026 Two of Everything: What Michigan’s Health System Mergers Reveal About AI 89% of companies don't get value from their AI implementations. For every dollar of AI you buy, budget 4 more to fit your organization.
AI for Developers • Aug 24, 2026 Skills or Commands and How To Use Them New agent commands and skills are created every day. My emails are a deluge of new agent workflows promising to supercharge my productivity.
