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AI Coding
AI-assisted development, tools, workflows, and observations on coding with AI.
- AI Can Make You Faster. It Can't Make You Senior.
AI can make a graduate engineer dramatically faster, but seniority was never about how quickly you could type code. It comes from accumulated experience, business context, judgment and knowing how to use what you have learned when the next unfamiliar problem arrives.
- The Abstraction Ladder: Guardrails for Acceleration
AI agents can make implementation dramatically faster, but the engineering does not disappear. It moves upward into architecture, constraints, tests, CI and the guard rails that let agents work quickly without turning bad assumptions into bad systems.
- The Many Hats Engineer
AI does not need to replace an engineer's expertise to be useful. The real advantage is using it deliberately to cover the other hats involved in building a product while keeping control of the engineering decisions you understand best.
- This Kills Your AI Token Usage
After years of using agentic AI to generate, debug and architect programs, it has become evident that there are a few things that lead you to an exhausted monthly usage regardless of how large your bucket is.