AI

For a while, a lot of engineering discipline was justified around human limitations. Now that AI can write code, review code, suggest tests, and help refactor, it is tempting to think some of that discipline matters less. What I’m learning is the opposite. AI is the way, but that does…

This post from Anthropic explains, very clearly, how we should be using AI in software development today. The key idea is simple: prompt engineering is fine for single, isolated questions, but real systems require context engineering. Once you move beyond one-off queries and into agents, workflows, or multi-step reasoning, the…

This week, my 9-year-old had a simple but powerful school assignment: stand in front of the class and share what he wants to be when he grows up. Without hesitation, he said he wants to be a software engineer. Hearing that, I decided to make it more than just a…

There’s something wild happening right now:With the rise of AI tools like GPTs, Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini, and specialized AI-powered IDEs like Cursor and Windsurf, everyone suddenly wants to become a developer. And honestly? That’s awesome. For the first time, people who never wrote a single line of code are…