AI Coding
Coding agents and assistants used on a real repository: briefs, reviews, cost, and the edits you still make yourself.
- Mar- 2026 -3 March
How to Migrate a Codebase with an Agent Without a Rewrite
The pitch arrives with a certain inevitability. A codebase has accumulated a decade of decisions: a payments module written in a framework nobody supports, a test suite that takes forty minutes and st
Read More » - Feb- 2026 -26 February
What to Include When You Ask an Agent for a Pull Request
A pull request description that says "fixes the login bug" and nothing else has a cost, and the cost is paid by whoever reviews it.
Read More » - Jan- 2026 -31 January
How to Make Generated Code Match the Project Style
An AI coding assistant will happily generate a 40-line function that works, passes the test, and reads like it was written by someone who has never opened the repository before.
Read More » - Jan- 2026 -25 January
How to Use Rules Files So the Agent Stops Repeating Itself
The agent reformats the same date string for the fourth time in one session. It apologizes, it corrects itself, and then two turns later it does the identical thing again.
Read More » - Jan- 2026 -20 January
Tasks You Should Still Do Yourself During an Incident
At 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, the incident channel had eleven people in it and four of them were typing at once.
Read More » - Jan- 2026 -2 January
Security Mistakes in Generated Auth and SQL
Auth code and SQL are the two places where AI-generated code fails most expensively. A wrong button color is a nuisance. A wrong WHERE clause is a data breach.
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