Developer-tools

A deliberate chapter back in an IC role, and the delegation skills from managing people keep resurfacing in the daily mechanics of working with agents.

Building an AI harness for my team taught me that the tooling was only part of the work. The more important outcome was making our working agreements visible, discussable, and executable.

AI-assisted development is a workflow problem. The developers who design how they explore, plan, build, and ship will outpace those chasing the next model.

Pascal warned that we flee stillness by staying busy. In engineering, the flight often looks like optimizing — and it's worth learning to notice.