AI-Driven Development
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I Still Miss Writing Code
There is a specific kind of quiet I have been thinking about lately. It is late. The office is empty, or the house is finally asleep. There is a problem on the…
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The Gatekeeper Generation
A developer at a fintech client lost three days to a reconciliation job that was silently dropping records under load. He had shipped eleven features in four months. Real output, not demo…
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Rails + RubyLLM vs LangChain in 2026: The Honest CTO Comparison
The Email That Started This Post A friend who is a founder sent me a Telegram message last month. “We’re three engineers. We have an AI feature to ship by Q3. Everyone…
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The Middle Loop Is Where Engineering Actually Lives Now
Someone finally named the thing. There’s a word now for the work I’ve been doing for the last two years without a vocabulary for it. The middle loop. Supervisory engineering. The thing…
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Everyone Is an “Engineer” Now, and Nobody Knows What Anyone Does
A CTO’s field guide to the 2026 AI job title theater, with a companion reference guide covering all 40 roles. I have been a CTO for most of my adult life. I…
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Almost Solved Is the Most Dangerous Phase in Engineering
Everyone agrees AI is transforming how we write code. Adoption is through the roof, productivity metrics look promising, and a growing chorus of voices insists we are months away from this whole…
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Complexity Is Never Eliminated. It Is Only Relocated.
COBOL moved complexity from machine instructions to business logic specification. 4GLs moved it from code to data modeling. No-code moved it from programming to workflow configuration. LLMs are moving it from syntax…
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The First 1,000 Lines Determine the Next 100,000 in AI Coding
I learned this the hard way while working with Claude Code. AI looks at your existing code and copies the patterns it finds. If you start with clean code, the rest stays…
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How to Make Your Website Agent-Ready With WebMCP: A Practical Guide
In my previous post on WebMCP, I covered what WebMCP is and why it matters. The response told me something important: developers do not want another think piece about the future of…
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Coding Is Changing. Software Engineering Is Not Going Anywhere.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said something that landed like a grenade across the technology industry. In an interview with The Economist,…