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.
Culture • Aug 23, 2026 Pick the Desk Where Your Boss Can See You Picking a desk? Pick the one near your boss. You want the people making decisions about your career to know you exist.
Effective communication • Aug 22, 2026 Why You Should Calibrate Difficult Conversations with Your Team At times, I've avoided difficult conversations; other times I've been overly eager. Calibrating the conversation is what's most important.
AI for Developers • Aug 21, 2026 Different Ways of Leveraging AI as a Developer: Creating Developer Tools Developers have been using AI as a tool for some time. Something that has slowly become my favorite use of AI: building developer tools.
DX • Aug 20, 2026 My Codex Workflow So Far and How It Keeps Me Focused A recent Codex demo made me realize I could address three headaches right away: communication, project management, and industry updates.
Developer Tools • Aug 19, 2026 Why I Keep Reaching for SQLAlchemy SQLAlchemy isn't valuable because it saves you from having to write SQL. It's valuable because it gives database work a consistent structure.
AI for Developers • Aug 18, 2026 Our AI Code Review Workflow, 7 Months Later Here's a follow-up on our homegrown AI code review workflow, including making it block merges and getting consistent findings run to run.
AI for Developers • Aug 17, 2026 Fabled Too Hard? How I Stay Engaged in AI Development About three years into AI adoption, I've learned what burns me out, what speeds me up, and how I stay engaged in agentic development work.
