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Brain-Work, Brain-Toil and Mentoring AI Agents

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I recently wrote about my enlightenment: A mental model for working with AI Agents. TLDR; see it as a collaborator who …
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AI Agents: Rich Oases of Knowledge, Barren Deserts of Wisdom

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Everyone keeps writing or sharing about how powerful AI Agents are and how they can fundamentally change the way we do …
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Flow: A Pragmatic Approach to Composable Business Logic in C#

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Only recently, after reading the book Effect Oriented Programming, did the true benefits of functional programming …
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Laziness and Impatience - An Engineer's Journey

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I used to have a relatively derelict blog (the one you're on now) where I would jot down some of my thoughts and ex…
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Did we just swap "compilation time" for "completion time"?

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I've been a software engineer for long enough to have seen our workflows evolve dramatically.Waiting for the Toolch…
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Shell Scripts: Safe Short/Long Option Parsing

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I’ve written a ton of Bash scripts over the years - haven't we all?
To be honest, for a long time I handled command…
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The Tale of Two Teams: How We End Up With Useless Software

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Two equally notorious ways to guarantee failure in any software project:Ship too soonNever shipThis is the story I use …
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GNU Make's Two Personalities: Understanding Simple (:=) vs. Recursive (=) Variables

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There are two major flavours of variables in GNU Make: "simple" and "recursive". While simple…
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The Tyranny of Choice: My Case for Opinionated Software

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Early in my career, I learned an expensive lesson (fortunately by observation, not by failure) and it has had a profoun…
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The "Zero Incidents" Trap: Why Chasing Perfection Backfires

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I'll confess: for years, I was an adamant believer.
I was convinced that achieving "zero incidents" was ju…
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