Personal blog on software development. All opinions herein are mine and are not necessarily shared with my employer.
A little over a month ago, I built and launched Grimoire CLI as an open source tool to give my AI agents a shared “Second Brain” they could use. I had originally started to use Obsidian for this, and I still do actually happily use Obsidian for organizing my own personal notes (mostly written by me, not agents). However, for my own personal taste, I found the Obsidian MCP to be a bit too slow, and…
In Early Lessons on AI Agent Productivity I talked about the early stages of my AI coding journey. After a couple months of forcing myself to use coding agents, I found myself being about a 1x developer. With a few weeks off to experiment on side projects, I began to find patterns that might let me work faster. At this point, especially since the release of Claude Opus 4.5 (and later 4.6!) I’ve…
If learning agentic coding is a Hero’s Journey, I feel like I’m in the “Initiation” phase - a road of trials and ordeals, but the reward (big leaps in productivity) is in sight. In this post I’m talking about how I got myself to being a “1x developer” leaning hard on coding agents, and the path I see to “5x developer” or so with currently available tools.
Recently, I’ve been reading Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual by Jocko Willink, which builds on the bestselling book Extreme Ownership. What it has me thinking about is a common misinterpretation of ownership, and what to do about it.
Recently, I accepted a new opportunity within Amazon Web Services to build out the open source tooling story for AWS Serverless Applications. I’ve had an amazing ride for 5 years and 10 months building tools and generally driving improvements to the Rubyist experience on AWS, but this new opportunity was too good to pass up. One side effect of this transition is that Ruby will no longer be my…
Since I’ve been sitting on this domain for a quick minute, I decided it was finally time to put something here. As such, welcome to my blog! Here I’m going to be keeping a bit of a record of what I’m working on. If I’m giving a talk or if I just pushed a new post to the AWS blogs, I’ll link to that here. When I do some interesting side projects, I’ll talk about those too. Hopefully it’s…