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Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that...

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of...

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.

On AI and an all-encompassing role in modern web development.

Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.

Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.

Eight months ago I was producing roughly 90% human written code and 10% AI written code. This has switched surprisingly rapidly and now my code is probably 90%...

From guarding our professional expertise to rethinking processes, some advice for using LLMs effectively and responsibly.

Calibrate your enthusiasm

Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.

During 2026 I shipped code I don't fully understand — and I was proud of it. On dialogue, authorship, and taste: what's left for engineers when AI writes the...

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that...

AI made you faster. But you're not more productive; you're outsourcing the slow part to everyone else

Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without...

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

“After all, who could be opposed to getting more done with less work?”

AI coding agents are becoming part of everyday development. They can write code, refactor classes, create tests, and explain complex codebases. But just like a...

Coding agents as normal technology

Creating code with AI is cheap, owning it will always be expensive.

AI is using AI to use AI to do my job! What do I do now?

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I'm doing to keep my hands dirty.

AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs,...

Simplified Android Development

Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.

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Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech

"People who don't use AI will be left behind", they say. I can't emphasize enough how much I hate it when I hear/read shit like that because I'm pretty sur...

A practical Claude Code guide for product, business, and operations folks. Not about prompt engineering, more about how to actually use it: how to write CLAU...

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

Forget the bullshit tips and tricks, just talk to it.

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to...

How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...

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Why the 'junior developer' metaphor for LLMs creates dangerous expectations, and how the Monkey Paw framing from folklore leads to better decisions about...

A rigorous study found AI-assisted developers are 19% slower yet believe they're 24% faster. The gap reveals that AI is best understood as an exoskeleton —...

Is security spending more tokens than your attacker?

LLMs will make more of your average stuff. And that's OK. Here's how average SQL beats fancy attribution models when your agent writes the queries.

My thoughts on AI-assisted programming.

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that...

The industry is building agents that say "yes" faster. But what if the coherent answer is "no, not like this"? Fifty years of software engineering keeps...

Personal website.

Learn how to use Claude Code from install to first code change. Covers CLAUDE.md, commands, VS Code, and the workflow that makes the difference.

You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are...

This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I'm sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing...

A comprehensive guide to Claude Code from someone who's been using coding AI since 2021. Learn the 5 pillars of agentic coding, custom commands, and advanced...

After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!

AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review f...

AI is transforming digital agencies and web development at an accelerating pace. To stay relevant, agencies must evolve beyond commoditized technical work and...

We have to be very careful about what we ask AI to help us with

I recently attended a presentation by people from Anthropic at work about their large language models. One undercurrent in the presentation was that thinking is...

IA, batteries, et béton brut.

The developers who are juggling 10 agents are either spending most of their time doing that planning and review work or they’re writing a lot of code that...

AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

How to select an AI technology and vendor, think about its implications, and apply it to your business.

How do we know if students are learning if ChatGPT is doing the work?

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AI might be a trillion billion balloons filled with confetti.

GitHub CEO warns developers to embrace AI or quit, he said on X, referencing new research. The study reveals how AI is reshaping developer roles and workflows.

Once it’s well integrated into our lives, any new technology can be seen as an exchange. We lose something and get something else in return. When we started...

A study into the workflows of experienced developers found that devs who use Cursor for bugfixes are around 19% slower than devs who use no AI tools at all. One...

Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans

Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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An essay about bad AI app design

Fine-tuning LLMs can save tokens, guarantee output formats, & bake in edge-case fixes. Learn when to fine-tune & how to do it effectively for your AI projects.

AI's real threat to education.

Know where AI is a crutch and where it’s an abstraction.

AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?

A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development

I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.

Developers and marketers are being told to add special files to their sites to help LLMs "understand" their content. But does it do anything?

I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs.This isn’t true, but it’s morally true for the reference class I’m in (people who wrote a book about...

I'm no longer browsing the web; I'm consuming AI answers instead. I love and adore today's so-called AI answer engines: tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok,...

MCP aims to standardize AI tool integration, potentially simplifying development and enabling more capable AI assistants. Current adoption is limited.

AI agents use models, loops, memory, and tools to automate complex tasks. Learn how they work, their evolution, and their practical uses and limitations.

I recently left my job at Netlify and have been looking at what's next. At Netlify I became very interested in the power of ML, AI and LLMs in particular, and...

I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here's...

There's been a whole lot of discussion recently about the impact of AI on the market for web developers, for programmers in general, and even more generally the...

Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes?

Personal website and blog of Felix Krause

A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.

Learn effective prompt engineering techniques for AI code generation in WordPress. Discover best practices, examples, and tips for creating clean, organized,...

Learn what Large Language Models (LLMs) actually are, how they work, and practical ways to add them to your web projects—no PhD required.

Research recently showed that using AI may impact workers’ long term critical thinking powers. Another alarm bell raises worries that overreliance on AI to help...

Understanding LLMs: A Simple Guide to Large Language Models

In this article, I share my personal mental model of how LLMs affect software engineers at different levels, and why this leads to both excitement and...

It will change it. But how?

AI isn't replacing devs, it's making them more valuable. Let's look at how the job of devs is evolving and how it impacts teams

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