Development Practices Even with LLMs, Let’s Pair Together Pair programming hasn’t been made redundant by LLMs. But using the robot sometimes makes human collaboration feel a bit less relevant.
AI for Developers There Has Never Been a Better Time to Learn the Software Development Lifecycle Agentic development shrinks the implementation phase; you can spend more time practicing other phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
AI for Developers Don’t Stick a Laser In Your Face (A Parable): Power Tools & Ignorance Power tools are dangerous and also incredibly beneficial in specific contexts, similar to the current paradigm of AI use.
Development Practices Use Curiosity, Craft, and Care to Decide What AI Should Write While working with a small team during an RDP engagement, I started paying attention to how much authorship we give AI over each artifact.
Evolving the Industry Spec-Driven Hiring Was My Most Useful AI Win of the Year When hiring using AI, Talent Profiles are contextual basis for every decision that follows.
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.
Artificial Intelligence 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 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.
Artificial Intelligence 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 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 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 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.
