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The Loop You Can't See

The Loop You Can't See

Competence comes with doubt; the erosion of competence comes with confidence.
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You are the AI agent's harness

You are the AI agent's harness

Most AI coding pipelines catch hallucinations after they happen. I built one that prevents them upstream — by treating the human as the harness.
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The Goal Was To Cut AI Agent Behavioral Overhead by 90%

Three compression strategies for the instructions that tell your AI assistant how to think.
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Prompt-first Frustration to Plan-First Success

Prompt-first Frustration to Plan-First Success

This article is for developers already using LLM coding assistants who want
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Your Child Is Being Trained to Pass Tests, Not to Think — And It's Going to Cost Them

Your Child Is Being Trained to Pass Tests, Not to Think — And It's Going to Cost Them

I've had to console grown men and women who were
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Evolution of Software Development: AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement

Evolution of Software Development: AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement

The integration of AI into software development isn't about replacement—it's about augmentation and evolution.
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Lore: Reliable AI Response Streaming with TCP-Inspired Buffer Management

Lore: Reliable AI Response Streaming with TCP-Inspired Buffer Management

Learn how I built a reliable AI chat system using TCP-inspired design: sequence numbers, acknowledgments, and retransmission. The result? Zero lost messages in production while maintaining real-time streaming performance.
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Pioneering Education Strategies in Software Developer Bootcamps: Fading Into Independence

This article is part of the Follow the Science series where I
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The First Principles of the High Value Software Developer
software development

The First Principles of the High Value Software Developer

Much like a painting maestro would never hand beginners brushes and paint and tell them to start painting, beginner software developers should not be told that their primary goal is to write code.
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The Rise and Fall of TypeScript

The Rise and Fall of TypeScript

An Analysis of its Impact on Web Development Introduction Since the inception
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Pioneering Education Strategies in Software Developer Bootcamps: Always Projects

This article is part of the Follow the Science series where I
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Senior/Staff Engineer Competencies

This article is largely for myself, but if you stumble upon this
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