Debugging AI Apps Shouldn't Mean Grepping Five Dashboards — Introducing Obyflow

Every review checklist ever written was built for a diff whose author could explain it. Here are the twelve questions that replace that assumption, why the generated tests don't count as a second opinion, and four merge gates that are actu…

A friend of mine doesn't speak English. I do most of my podcast listening in English. Every so often...

In 2001, in the final year of my Computer Science degree, I chose A_I and Neural Networks_ as an...

People have started telling me that my writing sounds like AI. I published that sentence in a...

About a year ago, I wrote a piece called Software Becomes Disposable, arguing that AI was...

Sealing the host made the naive mutation impossible and the agent useless. The fix is a Bench: a disposable environment that starts with no files and no network, where every capability is granted narrowly, per task, and revocably.

Since May I've been building Agent Console, a small desktop app for supervising coding agents —...

A senior software engineer who knew nothing about hardware, a BACnet MS/TP thermostat, and an RS-485 bus. How I ended up with an ESP32-S3 gateway on a DIN rail, wired into Home Assistant, in 15 evenings.

Most people wire up an AI agent and then discover what it can do. I did it the other way round:...

The following scene is a composite on-call pattern, not a personal claim about one employer. A...