Writing
- Dark Factory: “No Humans Should Write Code” (and what it taught me)
- Evidence > vibes.
- I’ve stopped “prompting an AI” and started running a software factory.
- I Thought AI Would Take the Fun Out of Engineering — It Didn’t
- AI Top Tip: No Green, No Opinion.
- Your Next Customer Might Be an Agent: How to Prepare Without Panic
- Planner/Worker: The Two-Thread Workflow That Keeps AI Useful
- Engineering Interviews Are Changing in the AI Era
- PR Review Is Changing in the AI Era
- Don’t Over-Determinise Agent Wording (Avoid Brittle If/Else Trees)
- Writing Agent Instructions Is a Team Sport (Business + Engineer)
- Writing Agent Instructions Is Programming
- Software Delivery: Appetites Over Estimates (and What You Say When The Business Asks “How Long?”)
- Codex / GPT-5.3 feels noticeably faster and more accurate for me.
- AI Top Tip: Context rot — stop fighting it, start a clean chat.
- AI Turns "We’ll Refactor Later" Into "Let’s Do It Now"
- AI Hasn’t Fixed Estimation in Software Engineering - It’s Made It More Dangerous.
- AI, TDD, and the Return of the Feedback Loop
- Using AI to Build Around Tech Debt, Not Rewrite It
- AI Helps You Ship. Simplification Helps You Scale.
- Agentic Development: The Shift Is Already Here
- Appetites, Project Deadlines, Due Dates...
- Bugs Within The Software Development Life Cycle - How Best To Manage?