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Dion Almaer

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Stitching with the new Jules API

The Jules team finished off another ship week with the release of an initial version of their API, allowing you to integrate with your friendly asynchronous squid engineer. I have been interested in having a native app that let s me interact with Jules, and get notifications pinged to me when activities are ready for the [ ]

Pools of Extraction: How I Hack on Software Projects with LLMs

I’ve started to notice some patterns in how I work on software projects. Specs as mini-pools I often sit down and just write a spec. Even if I never build it, the spec itself is a kind of temporary pool: a place where scattered ideas turn into something concrete enough to extract from later. When [ ]

Stitch Design Variants: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words?

My head has been in the world of code generation for the last few years. Now that I m also thinking about design generation, I m seeing a lot of similarities but also some fascinating differences. For example, it is cheap to ask AI for things. I will ask it to start from scratch and do a [ ]

Stitch Prompt: A CLI for Design Variety

I love how you can have an idea and often make it real in short order. I have been exploring how to make sure that when I design my frontend I get as much variety as possible as, after all, it s all about taste! When seeing folks prompt for app UI, 99% of the time [ ]

Stitch: A Tasteful Idea

Bringing Taste to Intelligence My oldest son has been a Star Wars fan where I am more into Star Trek with The Next Generation being the GOAT. Like many, Commander Data holds a particular spot in my heart the age old story of Pinocchio where the non-human teaches the most about humanity.As I rewatch the [ ]

English will become the most popular development language in 6 years

Simon Willison wrote up his 1, 3, and 6 year AI predictions from his chat with the lovely Oxide crew. This is always a fun thing to ponder as you start a new year, especially since 2025 feels like such a futuristic number. I found myself reflecting on this myself, and landing on a provocative thought. What [ ]

Principles of Developer AI Product Development

How do you build products and platforms for developers in a world that contains probabilistic black boxes that surprise you with what they can and can’t do, and when they decide to show you. From my own trial and error, I have found that most of my mistakes are in not understanding the two pieces: [ ]

Joining Tessl to become an AI native developer

tl;dr I m thrilled to announce that I ve joined Tessl, a new company that s pioneering AI Native Software Development. Founded by Guypo and fresh off securing Series A funding, we re on an exciting mission to revolutionize how software is built. I m especially excited to be reuniting with Ben as we focus on the opportunity to create [ ]

Keeping your A-Team together with developer AI

When I look back at my career, the most fun and fulfilling times I have had has been tied to impactful projects with a team that is clicking. This has often happened at a startup, but it has also happened in some magical moments where the team is able to move fast and with agency [ ]

Cultivating a Durable Championship Caliber Team

Manchester City just became the first team in history to win the Premier League championship four years in a row, with the chance to win the FA Cup this coming weekend. They are a dynasty, with 6 premiership wins in the last 7 seasons and many other trophies including the coveted Champions League. I enjoy looking at [ ]