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I'm the Co-Founder and CTO of B12. Before that, I was Director of Data at Locu, a startup that was acquired by GoDaddy. I went to grad school at MIT's CSAIL. One time in Jerusalem I ate a whole tub of hummus on my own. I don't regret that day.
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Office hours for new and soon-to-be software engineers, product managers, and designers
Free conversations with a neutral sounding board
Figmimic
A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
Northeastern presentation to junior engineers in the age of AI
An AI agent revolution is afoot: How can the next generation of software engineers thrive?
B12 3.0
A decade of helping customers build their home online
Four questions agents can’t answer
Software engineering after agents write the code
Claude Code and core dumps
Finding the radio stream that hosed our servers
Review: a bookmarklet to generate coding agent-ready code reviews
I’m excited to share Review, a bookmarklet that makes it easier for you to code review AI coding agents. The bookmarklet turns all unresolved comments on a GitHub pull request into a Markdown-formatted text blob that you can paste into your coding agent of choice. Since a video is worth a thousand words, here’s the tool in action with Claude Code:
ayb v0.1.11: Now sporting a web interface!
Quick reminder: ayb makes it easy to create databases, share them with collaborators, and query them from anywhere.
Mentoring junior engineers in the age of coding agents
A decent amount of digital ink has been spilled about the future of software engineering in light of increasingly powerful coding agents. Will software engineers, especially junior ones, be able to find jobs in the future as coding agents become more powerful? I’m not a futurist, so I’ll make some observations informed by my own increasingly productive use of coding agents like Claude Code and…