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Agentic engineering: from the trenches.

The Spec Said Required. The API Said Yes.
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The Spec Said Required. The API Said Yes.

We had a Hydra ticket — fix one bug, find two more. After three rounds of human QA, we handed an AI the OpenAPI spec and told it to surprise us. It did.

8 min 5
Build Once, Serve Everywhere: How an AI Agent Consolidated Our Infrastructure in One Session
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Build Once, Serve Everywhere: How an AI Agent Consolidated Our Infrastructure in One Session

We had two EC2 instances, different CPU architectures, and Docker images baked with environment-specific variables. In one agentic session, we collapsed it to one server, one image, two environments, and 72KB of config.

13 min 8
The Age of Personal Software
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The Age of Personal Software

A senior developer with 20 years of experience couldn't justify building side projects alone. Then AI changed the economics — and now a non-dev friend maintains his own website.

7 min 2
A Human Who Strives for Perfectionism and an Agent Who Consults and Migrates
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A Human Who Strives for Perfectionism and an Agent Who Consults and Migrates

We migrated CodeWithAgents.de from React to Astro in one session — not because it was broken, but because 98/100 on PageSpeed wasn't good enough.

7 min 6
The Walls That Taught Me More Than the Breakthroughs
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The Walls That Taught Me More Than the Breakthroughs

Every level of the AI dev journey has an invisible ceiling. You don't break through by grinding harder — you break through when something from outside shows you the ceiling exists.

7 min 7
If You Ship Faster, Someone Still Has to Click
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If You Ship Faster, Someone Still Has to Click

We automated the coding. The PRs. The CI. Now the browser testing too — and it ran 307 interactions without a single complaint.

8 min 9
From Soft Trust to Hard Walls: Our Journey Toward Safe AI Agent Autonomy
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From Soft Trust to Hard Walls: Our Journey Toward Safe AI Agent Autonomy

We run 18 AI agents with scoped instructions and logging. It works — until it won't. Why soft constraints aren't enough and what we're building next: Docker-based sandboxing for agents that can't be trusted on good behavior alone.

12 min 7
The 97% Bundle Cut: Why AI Agents Need Human Expertise
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The 97% Bundle Cut: Why AI Agents Need Human Expertise

An AI agent built our blog system. It worked. It also shipped a ticking time bomb. Here's why human expertise matters more, not less, in the age of agentic engineering.

8 min 10
From Beta Tester to Agentic Engineer: A Timeline
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From Beta Tester to Agentic Engineer: A Timeline

A chronological account of how I went from treating AI as a smart autocomplete to running 18 specialized agents on a production engineering pipeline.

7 min 10
The Clean Slate Is Gone: Claude Code's Memory and the Autonomous Workflow Problem
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The Clean Slate Is Gone: Claude Code's Memory and the Autonomous Workflow Problem

Claude Code now remembers things you didn't tell it to. For interactive use, that's a nice feature. For autonomous pipelines, it's a different problem entirely.

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