The Loop You Can't See
Competence comes with doubt; the erosion of competence comes with confidence.
Steve Brownlee
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.
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.
Prompt-first Frustration to Plan-First Success
This article is for developers already using LLM coding assistants who want
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
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.
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.
Pioneering Education Strategies in Software Developer Bootcamps: Fading Into Independence
This article is part of the Follow the Science series where I
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.
The Rise and Fall of TypeScript
An Analysis of its Impact on Web Development
Introduction
Since the inception
Pioneering Education Strategies in Software Developer Bootcamps: Always Projects
This article is part of the Follow the Science series where I
Senior/Staff Engineer Competencies
This article is largely for myself, but if you stumble upon this