AI for Developers How to Run SQL Server Outside Docker Sandboxes I've been experimenting with tooling around sandboxed agents. Here's what it took to give them access to a test database.
Culture The Importance of Play & Whimsy at Work In the workplace, play and whimsy have become deprioritized. That doesn't diminish their importance, but it does shift our perspective.
AI for Developers My Coding Agents Moved Off My Laptop and Onto a Remote Server If the agent is running on the laptop, closing the lid ends the run. For a while, I planned around it. Then I stopped.
AI for Developers Get Into Agentic Development From the Shallow End How should I maintain and expand systems as my workflow and my confidence in using agents for development changes?
AI for Developers My First Agentic Project: The Blank Page Was the Hardest Part I expected my first project using agentic development to feel smooth and easy. But when I started, I had more questions than answers.
AI for Developers Your Coding Agent Should be in Jail. Here’s Why and How. The more useful coding agents become, the more I start thinking about what the coding agent can reach. My answer: give Codex its own jail.
AI for Developers 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.
AI for Developers 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.
AI for Developers AI Agents: Experience Doesn’t Fit in a Prompt In learning how to work with AI agents, my team discovered how much of our team's experience had never been written down before.
AI for Developers Agentic Development in Practice: We Handed Off the Code, Not the Job Let's look back on 2 months of agentic development on a HIPAA app: what we let an AI agent ship, and where humans stayed in the loop.
Artificial Intelligence Keep Calm and Test On: Quality Assurance in the Age of Agentic Development Quality assurance (QA) analysts who thrive in this brave new world of agentic development won't be the ones raging against it.
Developer Tools How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work My previous workstation optimized for focusing on one task at a time. My new setup optimizes for coordinating multiple parallel threads.
