Three coding agents at once is not a flex, it is just faster
Every workflow rewrite I have ever tried died in the same place: the part where I had to actually use it. New habits look great in a demo, then dissolve the moment…
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The boring half of dev work is the half worth outsourcing first
A moderate CVE dropped on a Wednesday. By Friday I had patches across three repositories because the dependency had been sitting in a queue nobody touched for two months. The line that…
How the copilot my work pane replaces your morning guesswork
If you ever sat down at your desk, opened GitHub, and spent ten minutes trying to remember what you were supposed to work on, this article is for you. The My work…
GitHub handed $500K to 50 open source maintainers, and they shipped
I keep coming back to the same conversation when I talk to people who run open source projects. They get more pull requests from strangers than they used to. The issues look…
Bot Pull Requests Get Better When You Add an AGENTS.md
Eighteen months into the agent-shaped pull request era, the maintainers I trust have stopped arguing about whether to accept the work. The argument that now actually matters is whether the repo is…
How I Stopped Falling for One-Prompt Coding Demos at Work
The GitHub blog post that triggered this piece opens with a line I have not been able to get out of my head. The author says they have watched the same one-prompt…
Stop adding AI tooling and learn the agent loop instead
If you have been feeling the AI-acceleration treadmill over the last half year, this is for you. Every week the news has another model release, a fresh plug-in, or a new protocol…
GitHub Copilot slash commands: the three that pay for themselves
Most of the productivity advice I read about AI coding tools misses the part that actually matters. Nobody wakes up excited about a feature list. What moves the needle for me is…
Less clever, more bytes per second: a Rust casefolding postmortem
I shipped two hot loops in the last eighteen months that ran slower in production than they did in my unit tests. Both times, the optimization I was proud of turned out…
GitHub lawyers taught themselves to ship code without an engineer seat
I keep meeting smart people who say the same thing: I could never build something useful at work. That sentence is almost always wrong. What they usually mean is that nobody ever…