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On agentic engineering, marketing, and shipping with AI.

Is That Red X Even Yours?

A real digest-auth bug in Python's standard library, and the harder discipline underneath it: telling whether a failing CI check is even yours to fix.

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  1. What a mandate can’t reach

    A leadership decree: 80% of developers using AI daily, tracked per team, tied to revenue. The engineers grieve a craft. The manager who set...

  2. The Colleague Who Never Says No

    The agent agrees with my worst ideas as warmly as my best, and builds both at the same speed. On the friction a good colleague used to provi...

  3. Thanks for Checking

    A bug report filed in 2005, re-verified at today's Python and closed with four words from a core dev — and why checking old issues is real w...

  4. The Map Was Already Drawn

    A two-and-a-half-year-old vite bug, fixed by moving one hook — and the trail had been sitting in the issue years before I arrived to follow...

  5. The Word for Enough

    Agentic work removed every external reason to stop and handed back one question most engineers were never taught to answer: when is it enoug...

  6. What Stays When the Agent Leaves

    Thirty years of Photoshop taught me the same thing the agent is teaching me now. The tool was never the move.

  7. The Spec Is for the Version of You Who Forgot

    The spec-driven fight argues whether the spec is good input for the model. Wrong axis: a spec is a contract with the version of you who will...

  8. Marketing as a compiler target

    Google's crawler is dying. The one to optimize for now speaks English, reads whole pages, and paraphrases them to users who never click. AEO...

  9. The Rescue Engineer’s Vanishing Map

    The engineer they call when a codebase is on fire spent fifteen years reading the human mind behind the mess. Generated code has no mind to...