Essays

• Finding Agency by Quitting Managing

• Leadership: Establish the frame

• Be ready to disappoint

• Mental energy, not time

• Parenting:

  • Father for a year
  • Interacting with toddlers

• Programming:

  • Source code: Minimizing merge conflicts
  • Stop hiding bugs: a plea for crashing loudly
  • C++: Avoid explicit loops
  • Concrete types yield better maintainability
  • Action-Noun or Noun-Action

• Essays on AI:

  • Agentic AI: Recipes for reliable generative workflows
  • Dumb AI and the software revolution
  • Intentional instability: AI-generated code vs Hyrum’s Law
  • AI juries
  • Embrace the specification
  • Module specifications in Duende
  • Demarcate deliberate and incidental decisions
  • Direct Impact of Software Agents on Development Latency
  • Transposing the Agent Loop

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