{R}R Dev Notes


Found total of 161 articles.

Loop Engineering, Chapter 2: The Six Primitives of Loop Engineering

Chapter 2 of the Loop Engineering blog series. If a loop is the engine, the six primitives are the parts. A teaser on automations, worktrees, skills, connectors (MCP), the maker/checker split, and external memory.
2026-06-16

Loop Engineering, Chapter 1: The Anatomy of an Agentic Loop

Chapter 1 of the Loop Engineering blog series. Every agentic system begins with a single loop. A teaser on the ReAct pattern, why a loop beats a fixed prompt chain, the arithmetic of per-step reliability, and the discipline of a verifiable stopping condition.
2026-06-15

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 14: Where Does the FDE Function Belong?

Chapter 14 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The placement decision, revisited. A teaser on the five real placement options, the federated model, the five factors that drive the choice, and what to do when the placement turns out to be wrong.
2026-06-09

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 12: The New AI Wave — OpenAI, Anthropic, Runway, Greptile

Chapter 12 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The new wave rebuilds the FDE function for the agentic era. A teaser on how OpenAI, Anthropic, Runway, and Greptile each adapted the Palantir template — what's different, what's the same, and three patterns founders should watch.
2026-06-07

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 9: The Outer Loop — Scaling Field Intelligence

Chapter 9 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The outer loop begins the moment a deployment goes into production. A teaser on gravel roads and paved superhighways, the productization decision, the platform commit, measuring leverage, and the two-team handshake.
2026-06-04

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 8: The Inner Loop — Prototype to Production

Chapter 8 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. From the end of discovery to the first production milestone, the engagement runs on the inner loop. A teaser on the DARE framework, Minimum Viable Architectures, demo-driven development, the hardening phase, and when the customer wants to help.
2026-06-03

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 5: The AI and Agentic Frontier

Chapter 5 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The technical bar that the FDE shares with platform engineers — plus the AI-specific skills that separate the role in 2026. A teaser on agents beyond chatbots, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, evals as a discipline, and model-agnostic deployment.
2026-05-31

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 3: Where the FDE Sits in the Org

Chapter 3 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The first organizational decision is also the most consequential — and the most often wrong. A teaser on the classification mistake, the pod structure, the seniority distribution, and the career-path problem that quietly kills FDE functions.
2026-05-29

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 2: The Last-Mile Problem in Enterprise AI

Chapter 2 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Where SaaS stopped at the enterprise threshold, AI has to walk the last mile. A teaser on the four frictions at the last mile, the integration tax no demo shows, and why workflow redesign — not the model — is the product.
2026-05-28

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 40: The De-Vibing Protocol — Stabilization Sprints for Production

Chapter 40 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The final chapter and the remedy for the autocomplete trap — a two-week, agent-heavy stabilization sprint that moves a fast vibes-only build from 90/10 to 50/50 without halting feature development. A teaser on recognizing when you need it, the four tracks, and the three post-sprint disciplines.
2026-05-26

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 38: Multi-Agent Conflict Resolution — Protocols for Agentic Tie-Breaking

Chapter 38 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. When multiple specialized agents block the same PR with incompatible demands, the answer is a protocol for Agentic Tie-Breaking. A teaser on triaging stacked concerns vs. real conflicts, three resolution protocols, Architect Agent design, and the four governance failure modes.
2026-05-24

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 37: Context Scaling — Just-In-Time Retrieval for Million-Line Codebases

Chapter 37 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Hand-authored Context Packs don't scale past a million lines. A teaser on Just-In-Time Context, retrieval via MCP, the three governors that prevent runaway retrieval, and a concrete pipeline from a 3.8M-line codebase.
2026-05-23

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 36: The Long View

Chapter 36 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The long view. What happens to our craft, our profession, and our lives over the next ten years? A teaser on cycles and waves, three things that will endure, three that will change, and a final word on identity.
2026-05-22

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 35: A Short Bestiary of Vibe Coders

Chapter 35 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. A light-hearted bestiary of the eight Vibe Coder archetypes — the Sprinter, the Architect, the Skeptic, the Believer, the Pedagog, the Tool-Smith, the Commentator, and the Steady. With growth paths for each.
2026-05-21

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 34: Language-Specific Field Notes

Chapter 34 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every programming language produces its own Vibe Coding texture. A teaser with field notes on TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Ruby, C#, and Shell — including the cross-language pattern that fixes agent default-to-stale-idiom in any language.
2026-05-20

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 32: Vibe Coding in Platform and Infrastructure

Chapter 32 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Platform work is slow-moving by nature, but every improvement compounds across the whole engineering org. A teaser on infrastructure-as-code, CI evolution, internal-tool velocity, and the deployment-tool rebuild that dropped deploys from 40 minutes to 12.
2026-05-18

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 31: Vibe Coding in Data and ML

Chapter 31 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Data and ML work is where AI-native velocity meets statistical thinking and slow feedback loops. A teaser on ETL graduated rollout, feature-leakage guards, model evaluation boundaries, and the churn-pipeline case study that split build-time (8 days) from validation-time (weeks).
2026-05-17

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 30: Vibe Coding in the Frontend

Chapter 30 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Frontend has a different shape — visual, fast-iterating — and specific failure modes around design systems, accessibility, state, and performance. A teaser on the four domains and the dashboard rebuild that shipped in eleven days.
2026-05-16

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 27: Anti-Patterns — What Not to Do

Chapter 27 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Twenty-five named anti-patterns — the tempting shortcuts that look like speed and cost you the quarter. A teaser on ten of the worst, including Let-the-Agent-Decide, Rewrite-From-Scratch, Forever Pilot, and the Plan-Free Zone that pairs with One-Prompt-Solves-Everything to wreck AI-native rollouts.
2026-05-13

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 26: Checklists for the Working Engineer

Chapter 26 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Six one-page checklists I reach for mid-task — new feature, PR, deploy, post-incident, Context Pack health, and interview. A teaser on why checklists are most valuable when you're most confident you don't need them.
2026-05-12

Azure Front Door: a practical introduction

What Azure Front Door is, who it's for, what it costs, how it compares to Cloudflare and CloudFront, and a walkthrough of the settings that matter when putting it in front of an Azure App Service.
2026-05-11

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 24: The Failure Mode Catalog

Chapter 24 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Fifteen named failure modes I keep seeing in Vibe Coding practice, with remedies. A teaser on phantom confidence, silent scope creep, context amnesia, loop obsession, the yes-person agent, and the deprecation blind spot.
2026-05-10

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 23: Context Pack Recipes

Chapter 23 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Twelve Context Pack recipes for the situations you actually build packs for — greenfield, legacy monolith, migration, microservices, security, debugging, refactor, and more. A teaser on size budgets, disciplined exclusions, and the kitchen-sink reflex that drowns agents.
2026-05-09

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 22: A Day in the Life — A Narrated Session

Chapter 22 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. A narrated recreation of a real, medium-complex working day — hour by hour — because average days are where practice gets tested. A teaser of the hourly shape, and the single rule behind all of it: agents are leverage on thinking you've done.
2026-05-08

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 21: Working With Teammates (Human and Agentic)

Chapter 21 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Vibe Coding is only solo in the narrowest sense — every piece of code has reviewers and maintainers, some human, some agent. A teaser on the review contract, pair Vibe Coding, handing off to agents without walking off a cliff, and the explicit mentorship that still works in the AI-native era.
2026-05-07

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 20: The Weekly Cadence

Chapter 20 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Daily habits compound; weekly rituals keep the compounding honest. A teaser on the four weekly practices — the Friday Review, the Context Pack Audit, the Skill Refresh, and the Reading Hour — that separate sharp Vibe Coders from those who drift.
2026-05-06

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 19: The End-of-Day Routine

Chapter 19 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The last twenty minutes of your workday set up tomorrow. A teaser on the five-step end-of-day routine — handoff note, convention update, lesson capture, open-loop closure, and tomorrow's first task — plus the "one more thing" anti-pattern that undoes all of it.
2026-05-05

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 17: The Flow Loop

Chapter 17 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Flow with an agent in the loop is different from classical flow, but just as performance-defining. A teaser on the two-minute rule, the three-strike rule, the flow killers, and the checkout refactor that shipped in one afternoon instead of two days.
2026-05-03

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 16: The Morning Routine

Chapter 16 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The first thirty minutes of your workday set the upper bound on how much you will accomplish. A teaser on the five-step morning routine — reload, sync Specs, review memory bank, warm up, launch — and the anti-routine that destroys more productive days than any other pattern.
2026-05-02

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 15: The Future of the Human Engineer

Chapter 15 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Am I going to be replaced? The honest answer, after five years of watching the discipline evolve. A teaser on intent architecture, staying relevant, the economic reshaping of the senior-to-junior ratio, and craft in a craftless era.
2026-05-01

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 14: The 30-Day Pilot Framework

Chapter 14 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every successful AI-native transformation starts as a thirty-day pilot on a single well-scoped project. A teaser on how to scope the first project, the week-by-week playbook, the five-question graduation rubric, and the three pilots that show what works and what doesn't.
2026-04-30

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 13: VibeOps and CI/CD Evolution

Chapter 13 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Static CI/CD was built for human-paced commits. AI-native velocity needs dynamic, context-aware, agent-literate pipelines. A teaser on VibeOps, context preservation across deployments, merge queues at velocity, and the ten-minute pipeline contract.
2026-04-29

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 12: The GenDD Pod

Chapter 12 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Three people, continuous flow, almost no ceremony — the team structure that actually ships AI-native work sustainably. A teaser on the Agentic Product Lead, Engineer, and QA roles, the transition from Agile, and the case study where a SaaS company went from 72 engineers to 24.
2026-04-28

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 11: The Art of Agentic Debugging

Chapter 11 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Debugging in the AI-native regime is archaeology — the code may have been written by an agent you supervised loosely. A teaser on the self-correction loop, control-flow visualization, bisection under velocity, and the caching heisenbug that took hours manually but fifteen minutes with the agent.
2026-04-27

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 10: The Five-Layer Quality Gate Stack

Chapter 10 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every AI-generated change must pass five layers of automated gates before a human sees it. A teaser on linting, strict types, SAST, test synthesis, and agentic E2E — plus the anti-patterns that quietly invalidate the stack.
2026-04-26

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 9: Advanced Context Engineering

Chapter 9 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Context engineering is the highest-leverage activity in AI-native development. A teaser on the Context Pack, the Layered Prompt, the A/B test that proved more context isn't better context, and the three anti-patterns that quietly kill agent quality.
2026-04-25

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 8: The Four Pillars of AI Architecture

Chapter 8 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every durable AI-native project has the same four pillars — Vibes, Specs, Skills, and Agents — and most teams over-invest in one and neglect the rest. A teaser on the pillars, the healthy cycle, and the rebalancing that cut a company's regression rate by 80%.
2026-04-24

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 7: The GenDD Execution Loop

Chapter 7 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Generative-Driven Development replaces your ceremony set with a fractal five-step loop: Context, Plan, Confirm, Execute, Validate. A teaser on each step, what goes wrong when it's skipped, and the payments team that cut one-hour cycles down to ten minutes.
2026-04-23

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 6: Autonomous Orchestration Frameworks

Chapter 6 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Editors run one agent at a time; orchestration runs many. A teaser on task-specific personalities, memory banks, when to orchestrate (and when not), the 14,000-test case study, and the economics of multi-agent pipelines.
2026-04-22

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 5: Agentic Editors and Flow States

Chapter 5 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The editor is where the wiring meets your hands. A teaser on the three generations of editor, how semantic search amplifies your codebase's virtues and vices, the flow killers that destroy productivity, and the shortcut rebind that doubled a team lead's output.
2026-04-21

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 4: The Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Chapter 4 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. MCP is to agents what HTTP was to the early Web — a common protocol that turns bespoke integrations into reusable infrastructure. A teaser on host/client/server roles, the anatomy of a good tool, the six anti-patterns, and the security pitfalls every team trips over.
2026-04-20

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 3: Context Momentum and Path Dependence

Chapter 3 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Agents amplify project momentum — good patterns propagate, bad ones propagate just as fast. A teaser on the First Prompt Trap, context rot, the physics of convention drift, and the ten-thousand-dollar rule for decision rigor.
2026-04-19

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 2: Cognitive Load and Material Disengagement

Chapter 2 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. When the agent does most of the typing, the real failure mode is the engineer who has stopped engaging. A teaser on material disengagement, impressionistic scanning, the autocomplete trap, decision fatigue, and the seven habits of engaged engineers.
2026-04-18

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 1: The Triadic Relationship Model

Chapter 1 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Software used to be a dyad between engineer and machine. Now a third actor — the AI agent — has joined permanently. A teaser covering the Triadic Relationship Model, the CMDP view of software, and the six failure modes every AI-native team needs to name.
2026-04-17

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 24: Anti-Patterns and Failure Modes

The last chapter of Frictionless SaaS is about the mistakes teams keep making, even when they know better. A teaser covering the Anti-Pattern Registry, the Feature Trap, and the additional failure modes that quietly erode good products.
2026-04-14

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 23: Pattern Libraries and Proven Approaches

Frameworks are nice. Patterns are what you actually ship. A teaser for Chapter 23 of Frictionless SaaS, introducing the Fast Activation Pattern Library, the Frictionless Onboarding Catalog, and a set of high-performing product patterns borrowed from the SaaS companies that get activation right.
2026-04-13

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 22: AI, Automation, and the Future of Frictionless Design

In the AI era, features are commoditized overnight. So what actually becomes defensible? A teaser for Chapter 22 of Frictionless SaaS, covering the AI-Era SaaS Framework and the Experience Moat — the only lasting competitive advantage left.
2026-04-12

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 21: Operations and Scalability Without Friction

Why growing SaaS companies hit a wall that is not a product problem or a sales problem — it is an operations problem. A teaser for Chapter 21 of Frictionless SaaS covering the Event-Driven Operations Architecture and the Scalability Without Headcount Principle.
2026-04-11

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 20: Organizational Design for Frictionless Delivery

The Experience Ownership Model and the Behavior Design Canvas — two reorganizations that stop user experience from falling through the cracks between departments.
2026-04-10

Frictionless SaaS, Chapter 19: Self-Serve Monetization and Growth

The Self-Serve Growth Engine, the Expansion Revenue Framework, and the Seamless Handoff Principle — how to turn upgrades into a natural moment instead of a sales call.
2026-04-09