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developer tooling
8 posts tagged “developer tooling”.
Externalized proof: confidence is cheap
The agent saying 'tested' is not evidence. Software factories need proof captured outside the model's narration.
Seventeen comments
An agent built working backend code. Review pushed it into the right domain boundaries.
CLAUDE.md as project constitution
Our AGENTS.md hit 700 lines. I audited it and about half was stuff the model already knows.
Composing over reimplementing: how I structure Claude Code skills
I run a personal copy of every skill in my dotfiles and a team copy in the repo. This is how that works.
Ship-it: a Claude Code skill for the last mile
Lints, tests, code review, PR, ticket update. I automated the end-of-ticket sequence so I stop forgetting steps.
Five revisions of start-ticket: how a Claude Code skill learned to start work
I kept missing steps when picking up tickets. Five revisions later the skill handles it.
The programming atrophy problem: AI makes you worse at coding
Three studies say AI tools make you worse at coding. I use them every day so I wanted to know how bad it actually is.
Harness engineering: the model is just the horse
Same model, same benchmark, 36-point score difference just from the setup around it. Most of my engineering work now is on that environment, not the prompts.