On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Mario Zechner created the Pi agent framework used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed: We have basically given up …
Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.
How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns
How coding agents work - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Can agentic coding raise the quality bar?
Five examples of using agentic coding to improve software quality, instead of delivery throughput.
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Agent Design Is Still Hard
My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns
I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …
Introducing Radial: Agent orchestration on the Atmosphere
I've been working on a new project called Radial, a collaborative coding-agent orchestrator built on atproto (the protocol behind Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere). It's a bit like a team issue tracker that works with your favorite harness/model and turns what your agents learn into durable, reviewable team memory. I'm very excited about it.
Agent Skills
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
