The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll system you had to understand garnishments and pre-tax deductions and what happens when ...
Last month I wrote that skills are the most underrated feature in agentic AI. Everything I’ve built since has made me more convinced. The latest example: a user-story-creator skill that I used to write a user story in the OneBusAway vehicle-positi...
Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use on demand. They’re an open standard that works across Claude, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Cursor, and OpenAI’s Codex. A skill is just a directory with a...
Stop having pet projects; that’s a Staff Engineer’s domain. For a manager, every project is cattle: it needs to be completed, automated, delegated, or cancelled. Jampa Uchoa - Lessons Learned After 10 Years as an Engineering Manager I’ve b...
I find the usual conversations about AI and creativity to be pretty boring - we’ve been talking about cameras and sampling for years now, and I’m not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it ...
