Your Coding Agent Has No Reason to Write Good Code
Coding models are trained on a pass/fail test signal. Maintainability isn't graded, so it isn't learned, and no harness you build can fix that.
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AIOS v2: The Scope Is the Filesystem
A restructure log: what broke in the AIOS v1 tree at multi-scope scale, why identity-first beats type-first, and what shipped in v2.
The One File Where Your AI Model Names Live
Model names scattered across every repo's config rot the day a model gets deprecated or repriced. One git-versioned markdown table fixes it for good.
Performance Reviews When Agents Do the Typing
Commit count and PR volume are agent-inflated now. Here's what I actually evaluate in reviews, and the 1:1 questions that surface real judgment.
Testing AI Agent Outputs in Elixir with ExUnit
An ExUnit suite for agent loops in Elixir that asserts on tool-call order and hallucinations as well as final strings, plus evals that survive model upgrades.
The Onboarding Playbook for an Agent-Heavy Codebase
First-PR review, authorship transparency, and mentorship all change when half the diffs a new hire reads were written by an agent. Here's the process.
Secrets Management for AI Agents on Small Teams
Your agent's tools need your production keys; the agent itself never should. The broker pattern, per-tool scoping, and what a five-person team can skip.
Trust Is the Operating System
One operating system runs a team whether the teammate is a person or an agent. My blueprint: trust, pods, outcomes over hours, managing agents like interns.
AIOS: An AI Operating System in Plain Markdown
I open-sourced the AI operating system I run daily: a git-versioned markdown vault, cross-repo wiring, and a nightly ingest loop. Fifteen minutes to set up.
What an AI Agent Postmortem Should Contain
Classic SRE postmortems can't explain agent incidents. The sections to add (decision-time context, autonomy rung, permissions delta), with a template.
Building an AI Memory That Outlives Any Single Agent
Your accumulated agent memory is a bet on one vendor's format. Build a portable, git-versioned knowledge layer any agent can read instead.
4,154 Commits in Six Months With AI Agents
I shipped more code in 2026 than the previous four years combined. The commits are real. The productivity is real. What I lost is harder to measure.