May 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Feedback loop is all you need
Agentic coding works when the loop has ground truth. Prompts help, but verification is what makes the system improve.
ai-engineering
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new Feedback loop is all you need
Apr 25, 2026 · 5 min read
The Success You Cannot Reproduce Is an Illusion
Correlation explains why AI coding can feel magical and unreliable: the system, not the model alone, turns probability into control.
cognition
Apr 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Don't Build Around Today's Best Model
Capability rankings keep changing. If switching the leading model is hard, the bug is your architecture, not your prompt.
ai-engineering
Apr 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Can Six Sigma Rein In Your LLM?
Prompt engineering tunes the mean. Narrowing the distribution takes a different toolkit — one that came out of factories a hundred years ago.
ai-engineering
Apr 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Your LLM is always telling you a story
The model always hands you a systematic-sounding story. It usually isn't the truth. What FBI cognitive interviewing teaches you to do next.
ai-engineering
Apr 15, 2026 · 4 min read
How to make your LLM reliable
Four rules from Karpathy's skills repo — and why they're the same rules you'd teach a junior engineer.
ai-engineering
Apr 4, 2026 · 6 min read
When Everyone Has AI, What's Your Edge?
AI creates more jobs than it destroys — history proves it. Here are the 5 skills that matter for what's coming.
career
Mar 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Always Hungry: A Self-Evolution Mode for the AI Era
What if your project could watch the open-source community, learn from it, and upgrade itself — without you doing anything?
agents
Mar 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Becoming an AI Psychosis
I gave my AI agent a design language and 6 core pages. It built 20+ production pages on its own. I didn't touch a thing.
agents
Mar 18, 2026 · 8 min read
What Figma Code Connect Changes: Revising the AI Coding Pipeline Strategy
Figma Code Connect + custom strategies working in layers — combining the best tools to maximize AI coding pipeline output.
design-systems
Mar 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Catching the AI Boat: A Software Engineer's Transformation Guide
AI doesn't replace engineers — it replaces the version of engineering we grew up doing. Here's how to make the shift.
career
Mar 15, 2026 · 10 min read
Reducing AI's Dependency on Figma Standardization Through Engineering
Don't ask designers to change how they work. Absorb Figma's messiness in the engineering layer instead.
design-systems
Mar 13, 2026 · 5 min read
One Metric Is All You Need: Measuring AI Engineering Productivity
Velocity measured effort. FPI measures trust. Here's why it's the only metric that matters when AI writes your code.
ai-engineering