In the prior article, I described my experience taking a small, long-running compiler project and using AI coding tools to extend it with first a TUI and later a web-based mini-IDE. That work taught me a great deal about: * Refining a specification through back-and-forth conversation with an LLM * Defining outcomes
This is the first article in a series documenting my practical investigations into agentic coding. In many ways it’s the odd one out: it spans several years of me intermittently picking up my compiler project, testing the AI coding tools of the moment, and trying to understand two things—
AI-assisted coding has now been with us for several years. It sits squarely inside the AI hype cycle and has quickly become a focal point for both ambition and anxiety within commercial software organizations. Boards and investors ask, “What are we doing with AI?” Strategies are rewritten, budgets are reallocated,
This blog explores my thoughts, experiments, and observations on software development—both in process and technique—as well as on the building of development teams in the era of rapidly evolving AI-assisted coding tools.