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The shapeshifting engineer
AI writes most of the code now. The engineering job is moving towards judgement, better specs, and checking what the machine produced. read more →
Local models in mid-2026: the engineering that closed the gap
How open weights got close enough to run at home in 2026, the engineering that got them there, and why a memory crunch made the box pricier. read more →
Herding parallel agents on a remote box with herdr
herdr is an agent-aware tmux replacement that shows which parallel Pi or Claude Code session needs you. My remote-box setup and install notes. read more →
Building lgtmaybe: a PR reviewer for any model
How I built lgtmaybe, a provider-agnostic PR reviewer with keyless cloud auth, and the fiddly security and concurrency problems that were fun to solve. read more →
Identifiers within AWS CDK
Construct IDs and the unique logical IDs CDK generates from them, with a 2026 appendix on CDK v2 and the renaming footgun that can delete a resource. read more →
Reference and import existing assets into AWS CDK
A 2021 walkthrough of importing existing CloudFormation and referencing live AWS resources in CDK with Python, plus a 2026 appendix on what changed in CDK v2. read more →