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Found total of 32 articles.
The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 4: The Technical Bar
Chapter 4 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE is, first and last, an engineer. A teaser on the four technical primitives, the non-obvious skills, what you don't need to be, and the four-round interview that actually tests for it.
2026-05-30
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 39: Impressionistic Scanning — A Visual Heuristic Guide
Chapter 39 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Shape matters before content — especially for AI-generated code, where the agent is often blind to global shape. A teaser cheat sheet of six visual code shapes (wide-flat, deep-nesting, high-import-churn, long-thin, jagged, suspicious-uniformity) and what each one means.
2026-05-25
The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 29: Vibe Coding in the Backend
Chapter 29 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Backends are unusually well suited to agentic development — but each subdomain has characteristic failure modes. A teaser on API design, migrations, job idempotency, caching, auth, and the billing-service rewrite that shipped in four months via extraction rather than vibes.
2026-05-15
The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 28: The Tips Archive — 100 Notes from Daily Practice
Chapter 28 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. One hundred numbered tips from daily practice, collected over years. A teaser with twelve of the most-quoted — from "if you're repeating it three times, put it in agents.md" through "do not estimate in hours for agent-assisted work; estimate in cycles."
2026-05-14
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
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 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 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 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 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 15: Continuous Optimization and the Data-Intuition Balance
Chapter 15 preview of Frictionless SaaS: the Experiment-Learn-Ship cycle, the Data-Intuition Balance, staged rollouts, and the retention operating model that turns improvement into a flywheel.
2026-04-05
Frictionless SaaS Chapter 14: Experience Observability and Friction Detection
Chapter 14 preview of Frictionless SaaS: experience observability, synthetic and real-user monitoring, and the friction detection engine that surfaces retention issues before they become churn.
2026-04-04
OpenClaw Engineering, Chapter 9: Scheduling and Deterministic Orchestration
Time-based automation for agents: cron jobs for simple periodic tasks and the Lobster workflow engine for complex, deterministic, resumable multi-step pipelines with human approval gates.
2026-03-24
OpenClaw Engineering, Chapter 8: Event-Driven Workflows
How OpenClaw agents spring into action automatically via hooks, webhooks, and TypeScript handlers—without waiting for human invocation. From internal events to CI/CD pipelines.
2026-03-23
OpenClaw Engineering, Chapter 7: The Skill Ecosystem
Bundled skills vs workspace skills, skill discovery and context, publishing to ClawHub, managing 13,000+ community skills without collision, semantic search, and the meta-skills that let agents improve themselves.
2026-03-22
Frictionless SaaS, Part 0: How Users Actually Find, Judge, and Try Your Product
Kicking off a blog series based on the book "Frictionless SaaS." This first post introduces Chapters 0.1 through 0.3 — Discovery, the Landing Page, and Freemium & Entry Points — the three friction points every user hits before they ever sign up.
2026-03-21
Chapter 19 – Measuring AI Effectiveness
Chapter 19 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code tackles the question every team eventually asks: is our AI actually working? Learn to build metrics frameworks, structured evaluations, and workflow acceleration measurements that prove (or disprove) AI's value.
2026-03-19
Chapter 17 – Guardrails and Governance
Chapter 17 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code moves from understanding risks to implementing controls — permission isolation, tool allow-lists, human-in-the-loop approval workflows, validation hooks, and enterprise-grade audit logging.
2026-03-18
Chapter 11: CI/CD Integration and Automation — Claude Code in Your Pipeline
Chapter 11 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code shows how to deploy Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, automated PR reviews, security audits, documentation sync, cost management, and production safety patterns.
2026-03-12
Chapter 10: Safe Legacy Code Refactoring — Horror Stories and the Discipline That Prevents Them
Chapter 10 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code tackles the hardest problem in AI-assisted development — refactoring legacy code without introducing subtle bugs. Covers characterization tests, incremental verification, PR review, and catching hallucinations.
2026-03-11
Chapter 9: Claude Code Fundamentals — The CLI Agent That Rewrites Your Codebase
Chapter 9 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code introduces Claude Code — a CLI agent that reads, analyzes, and modifies codebases directly from the terminal. Covers architecture, multi-file refactoring, Git worktrees, and permission management.
2026-03-10
Master Claude, Chapter 2: The Three Pillars of Claude — Chat, Cowork, and Code
Claude is not one product — it is three. Chat for reasoning, Cowork for desktop automation, Code for terminal-based development. Chapter 2 of Master Claude Chat, Cowork and Code explains the architecture of each and the decision framework for choosing the right one.
2026-03-03
Art of Coding, Chapter 15: Code as a Team Sport
Code as a team sport: shared ownership, documentation as craft, and respecting the reader. The human practices that make software sustainable and teams thrive.
2026-01-12
Art of Coding, Chapter 14: Code Reviews and Pair Programming
Code reviews as mentorship and collaboration. How to write for reviewers, offer critique with respect, and build a team culture grounded in feedback.
2026-01-10
Art of Coding, Chapter 13: Testing as a Design Discipline
Testing is a design discipline. How well-written tests reveal awkward APIs, improve code clarity, and become the most reliable documentation of system behavior.
2026-01-09
Art of Coding, Part III: Practices That Shape Good Code
From principles to practice. How daily habits, small decisions, and repeated choices shape code that actually endures.
2025-12-30
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