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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Jose Valim Is Right: Anthropic's Incentive Problem
José Valim says Anthropic hasn't separated its security case from its commercial interest. He's right, and it's every frontier lab's problem.
Instrumenting LLM Calls in Phoenix with Telemetry
ReqLLM already emits token cost and latency telemetry events. The real gap is a few lines wiring them into LiveDashboard and PromEx, not another SaaS bill.
What a 96% Security Benchmark Actually Measures
Microsoft's security system hit 96% on a benchmark this week. Here's what that score actually measures, and how to read any vendor's benchmark claim.
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.
Streaming LLM Tokens in LiveView, the 2026 Way
Token-by-token LLM streaming in Phoenix LiveView without React: the 2026 async APIs, plus the production failure modes most tutorials 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.
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.
Programming Sucks, Now With Agents
An homage to Peter Welch's Programming Sucks, updated for agents: a genius intern with amnesia, hallucinated packages, and a closet that eats your auth layer.