AI for Developers How I Use AI Before the First Line of Code I find AI most valuable at a time much earlier than implementation. It's the architectural exploration phase, before I write any code.
Artificial Intelligence Here’s How I’m “Friction-Maxxing” in a Technical Role As a developer using AI tools, my own friction-maxxing can’t involve cutting AI out of my work entirely. But if I can do things myself, I do.
AI for Developers I’m An AI Skeptic—Here’s How I Use AI I consider myself an AI skeptic. I use generative AI to help me with programming, but only after I’ve exhausted other options.
Artificial Intelligence Take Back the EM Dash — and Your Voice I can tell I'm reading text generated by an LLM. What bugs me most is that the voice is gone. Here's how to retain your voice.
AI for Developers How I Extend My Workflow with Claude Code CLI Because I want to streamline my development process, I'm experimenting with Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line tool for agentic coding.
Artificial Intelligence Demystifying AI Agents for Managers: A Practical Setup That Improves Delegation and Reduces Rework When I say "AI agents," I don't mean a general-purpose AI assistant or a clever bot scurrying around the internet on your behalf.
AI for Developers Build an RFP Finder with Spec-Driven Development and SpecKit We recently tried something new: building an internal tool using spec-driven development with GitHub’s spec-kit and Cursor as my IDE.
Development Practices Why I’m Sold on AI for Code Reviews AI code reviews are helping my team catch bugs and speed up PRs. Here’s how Codex, Cursor, and Sentry are improving our workflow.
Delivery Practices Practical Ways I Use AI Transcripts in Client-Facing Delivery Work Unlock the potential of AI transcription tools to enhance your meeting efficiency and focus on important discussions.
TypeScript LangGraph’s Execution Model is Trickier Than You Might Think LangGraph is powerful for orchestrating stateful workflows in LLM applications. It took a while, though, to get a grasp on the foundations of the execution model.
Artificial Intelligence The Robots Are Not Yet Sentient: Lessons Learned Building a Web App With No Development Experience I recently took an in-depth swing at building a functional prototype of a web app… with zero development background.
AI for Designers The AI Concerns I Heard at UX U’Yall I had the privilege of attending and speaking at UX Y’all, a UX conference in Raleigh, NC. Here some common concerns I heard around AI.
