AI Skills Are Not Just Prompts: A Practical Architecture for Building, Evaluating, Shipping, and Maintaining Agent Skills

A tutorial for gh stack, and for the fact that it does not care whether the diff gets read by my lead or by an AI. Small diffs get reviewed better either way.

Refereeing the memory-safety retrofit argument from someone who ships framework code in both Rust and Go, and likes them for different reasons.

GPT4All is an open-source graphical desktop application for running large language models (LLMs)...

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 —...