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¦
Kiro
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2026
Stop Guessing Which Coding Agent to Use ā Benchmark It on Your Own Tasks
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¦