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24 posts tagged "For Engineers"
The 4-Part Loop That Eliminates AI Slop (in Your Apps and Your Content)
If your AI output keeps hitting a ceiling, the fix isn't better prompting, it's a scoring loop with an independent judge. Here's the 4-part pattern, with the prompt I use.
How to Use Claude Code Skills
Someone shared Claude Code skills on X. You clicked the GitHub link. Now what? Here's how to use, personalize, and write your own.
How Should Your Strategy Change When Coding Costs Shrink to Nothing?
When coding costs shrink to nothing, the smart strategy isn't perfecting one version. It's generating many and synthesizing the best.
How to Adopt AI Coding Without Creating Technical Debt
Five steps to AI code quality that compounds over time — from repeatable process and reviewable decisions to encoded engineering judgment.
Most AI Agent Systems Are Built Backwards
Most developers treat the LLM as the agent. That's the mistake. The Jido Framework flips the model: the agent is the actor, the LLM is a tool it picks up when it needs to reason. Here's why that changes everything.
The Best Thing About AI Isn’t Productivity. It’s Permission.
AI gives you permission, not just productivity. Permission means you can explore paths you never would have walked down.
How Estimating Changes in an AI World
Here's an interactive way to see how estimating changes in an AI world. Put in your own data and see the results.
There Are Two Kinds of AI Work. What If You're Missing One?
There are two kinds of AI work — design-time and runtime. Most people throw everything at runtime, making it slow and expensive.
AI Context Failures: Nine Ways Your AI Agent Breaks
Your AI agent has the right data but still gets it wrong. Learn the nine ai context failures that break reasoning, not retrieval, and how to diagnose each one.
Make Context Loss Impossible
Every time Claude Code compacts, you feel it. That sinking moment when you realize half your project context just evaporated. The agent that was making brilliant connections five minutes ago now needs everything re-explained. Here's the thing: the good news is that Claude Code now clears context at the end of planning mode to give...
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