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Your deployment pipeline was not designed for this. Tom Occhino from Vercel published something last week that I keep coming back to: 30% of deployments on Vercel are now agent-initiated. Six months ago that number was effectively zero. Claude Code alone accounts for 75% of those. You can call that a trend if you want. […]
A version of this was presented at the PugTO (programmer user group meetup) in Italy in May 2026. A professional footballer does not play until retirement. At some point the body stops, the role changes, the career evolves. It seemed obvious to me when I started thinking about it and then I realized I had […]
You have never sat down and calculated the cost of your dependencies. Not really. I am guilty of this too. I have spent years treating `go.sum` and `package-lock.json` as infrastructure the kind of thing you commit and forget until something breaks loudly enough to wake you up. The problem is that the breakage is getting […]
In the previous post I argued that agents will make your telemetry explode and most stacks are not ready. Several people wrote to ask the natural follow-up: so what do you actually do about it? This is my answer. The short version: you need to instrument the agent’s reasoning as first-class telemetry, before it ships […]
I have operated systems at scale long enough to know that the scariest failures are not the ones that blow up immediately. They are the ones that accumulate quietly, in the background, until the night you realize you cannot see what is happening anymore. Agents are going to do that to your observability stack. Vercel […]
The codebase doesn’t care how it got written, but you will. Robby Russell wrote a piece that I keep thinking about. His argument: the pros dismissed Access and FileMaker, but founders built real businesses on them. The tools worked. The code did what it needed to do. He’s honest enough to admit this threatens his […]
Most arguments about AI-generated code are talking past each other. I have been watching this debate for months now and I think I finally understand why it never resolves: the two sides are answering different questions. Robby Russell puts it plainly: your codebase doesn’t care how it got written. What it does, it does. He […]
My instincts are miscalculated. I can feel it. I have been writing software and operating systems for long enough to have built up a library of shortcuts — not the bad kind, the useful kind. When something takes three days, you stop re-evaluating whether it should take three days. You just factor it in. That’s […]
I like to think I have a couple of “superpowers”… but coding agents aren’t (yet) one of them. That said, I’ve been experimenting with obra/superpowers + Claude, and I have to admit the experience has been surprisingly solid. It feels much more interactive compared to typical coding agent workflows, and more importantly, it really helps […]
There has been a growing number of articles and personal stories from people trying to move away from Google, Slack, and other large platforms. The reasons vary. Geopolitics plays a role. European governments are pushing toward open source solutions. On Hacker News, you can find countless threads about companies experimenting with alternatives to the big […]