Engineering × AI × Scale
I’ve spent the last year watching engineers and writers adopt these tools, and the same pattern keeps showing up. The first three months look transformative. The next nine look almost identical to the first three. The output keeps coming. The confidence keeps building. The skill stops moving. This isn’t a...
A team I was talking to had built a code-review skill in Claude Code. It looked good: a careful prompt, a set of rules, and...
Claude Code understands one repo at a time. Most teams have thirty. Microservices, shared libraries, infrastructure-as-code, frontend apps, data pipelines, all in separate git repos....
Production agentic systems decompose problems and use the right tool for each step. Most developers hand the AI the whole problem. That’s the gap. Teams...
Developers using AI estimate they’re 24% faster. A randomised controlled trial measured them at 19% slower. That’s from METR’s 2025 study. These were experienced open-source...
Most people use AI coding agents backwards. They hand the agent a problem and ask it to solve the whole thing. The agent reads, reasons,...
Principles are easy. Application is hard. I’ve written about intelligent Engineering principles and the skills needed to build with AI. But I kept getting the...