TL;DR: In AI coding the hard part is no longer writing the code, it is understanding the code the agent wrote well enough to keep steering. Geoffrey Littās framing is that the human job shifts from veā¦
Kiro
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2026
Understanding Is the New Bottleneck ā and Your AI Agent Can Fix It
Stop Guessing Which Coding Agent to Use ā Benchmark It on Your Own Tasks
TL;DR: Generic coding-agent leaderboards donāt tell you which model or tool fits your work at a budget youāre willing to spend. So I built a small task set that mirrors my real work and ran an open-soā¦
How My Setup Learns While You Sleep
TL;DR: The thing that makes an agent get better over time is a loop, and the loop is the same whether you buy it or build it: capture raw interaction, consolidate it on a schedule, and keep the lessonā¦
The Other Half of Two-Pizza
TL;DR: Werner Vogelsā āA return to two-pizza cultureā describes how a coding agent let one scientist prototype Amazon Quick Desktop overnight, and how ownership culture carried it from there. Reading ā¦
CLI vs MCP, Part Two: The First Gap Just Closed
TL;DR: In March I argued the CLI vs MCP debate was the wrong debate, and that the CLIās advantages were a temporary artifact of training data, not a law of physics. One of those advantages was multi-aā¦
Architecting Skills: How Code Makes AI Agents More Reliable Over Time
TL;DR: An agent skill starts life as a markdown file full of instructions. It works, sometimes. Then you watch it fail in ways that are hard to predict, and you notice a pattern: the steps that break ā¦
AI-Assisted Talk Prep: The Recording-Analysis-Iterate Loop
TL;DR: I prepared my AWS Summit Hamburg talk through 6 recorded dry runs, each analyzed by a structured AI skill. The skill transcribes via Amazon Transcribe, counts fillers with word-level timestampsā¦
Code Quality Is the New Infrastructure
Ten talks. Ten practitioners from different companies ā Anthropic, Google, HashiCorp, Thoughtworks, Answer.AI, Factory, and independent creators. None of them coordinated. All arrived at the same concā¦
Hackathon Gamification: A Real-Time Leaderboard You Can Deploy in 5 Minutes
Lisbon, 6 AM, Rising Sun Lisbon at dawn ā the best way to start a hackathon day Three days in Lisbon. Not for sightseeing, though the city makes that hard to resist. Iām here for an AI hackathon ā teaā¦
CLI vs MCP: The Wrong Debate
The Zombie Processes and the 50GB Cache A few weeks ago, I noticed my MacBook was sluggish. I found orphaned MCP server processes that had failed to shut down cleanly, a problem Didier Durand describeā¦
The Coding Agent That Doesn't Code
The Friday That Wrote Itself Last Friday, I used a coding agent for eight hours straight. I didnāt write a single line of code. I prepared a customer meeting by pulling context from Slack threads, calā¦