Iโm thrilled to share thatย Josh Drummย and I will be presenting atย Boston Code Camp 39 on November 22nd! Our session -ย โVibers vs. Doomers: The AI Coding Debateโย - is going to be aย funย one: Is AI the future of software engineering or the beginning of its downfall? In this lively, debate-style session, two developers take opposite sides: the... Continue Reading →
The Reality Behind the Buzz: The Current State of Agentic Engineering in 2025
Iโm very excited to have another guest writer on my blog: OpenAI Deep Research! I didnโt write this post. I heavily relied on OpenAIโs Deep Research. I did review, clean up, and modified a little, but this is a guest post from ChatGPT ;) My prompt was: Write a comprehensive blog article, following my style,... Continue Reading →
You Canโt Prompt Your Way to being a Senior Engineer
This is the third and final post in my mini-series. In my first post, Where have all the Engineers gone?, I shared some hard questions about the current state of engineering and what it will look like a few years from now. In my second post, Rise of the Agent Director, I discuss the importance of experienced... Continue Reading →
Rise of the Agent Director
In my last post, Where have all the Engineers gone?, I wrestled with some tough questions we're facing today, in the age of AI-powered engineering. I can't just leave it there... Just as the rise of automation and CI/CD pipelines reshaped operations teams by forcing traditional sysadmins to upskill into DevOps engineers or risk obsolescence, weโre... Continue Reading →
Where have all the Engineers gone?
This is part one of a short mini series. Part 2 is Rise of the Agent Director. Part 3 is You Canโt Prompt Your Way to being a Senior Engineer. Where is my John Wayne?Where is my prairie song?Where is my happy ending?Where have all the cowboys gone?Where is my Marlboro Man?Where is his shiny gun?Where is... Continue Reading →
The Illusion of Thinking: Models Donโt Actually Reason
I grabbed my morning coffee and dove into Appleโs new paper, The Illusion of Thinking (okay fine, ChatGPT and I dove into it together). And you know what? None of this really surprised me. I've been working through creating custom "thinking" agents, leveraging reasoning models. The head-shaped-hole on my desk tells you how well it's... Continue Reading →
Wired for Growth: How Smart Companies Can Use AI Without Losing Their Soul
Iโm excited to have guest writer Chelsea Lamb from Business Pop share this post! In boardrooms and basement startups alike, artificial intelligence has graduated from buzzword to backbone. The question is no longer if AI has a place in your business, but where, how, and with what expectations. Thereโs plenty of noise in this space โ from... Continue Reading →
Context Switching and LLMs โ A Cognitive Parallel
Photo by Mike van den Bos on Unsplash We've all been there: managing many moving pieces in our heads and then, BLAM, Slack dings, weโve lost our perfect mental model faster than closing an unsaved file. Working with LLM agents has upped the ante in terms of what we have to keep in context in... Continue Reading →
When a Prompt Isnโt Enough: Rethinking Your Approach to AI
I've spent considerable time crafting prompts for numerous professional and personal tasks and projects: knowledge retrieval, research, productivity, writing, gaming, and media. Over time, I've developed my preferred prompt-writing style. Iโve learned a few tips along the way, and expect to learn more soon. How do we write the best prompts? Keep it simple. Before... Continue Reading →
Get Over Yourself: AI Coding Assistants Arenโt Going Anywhere
Artificial Intelligence in software development sparks debates hotter than Star Wars fans arguing about which trilogy is best: Original, Prequels, or Sequels. (we all know itโs the Original). Tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor promise to make coding easier and faster, but there are folks out there that strongly disagree. Why?! A little about my... Continue Reading →
