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From Typist to Architect: How to Teach Software Engineering in the Age of AI
In the era of generative AI, teaching syntax line-by-line is obsolete. Discover how to mentor junior engineers on architectural patterns, separation of concerns, and guiding AI to produce robust, scalable code.
The Regulatory Moat: When the Frontier Becomes a Cartel
The recent viral resignation of an Anthropic researcher revealed more than safety concerns: it exposed an attempt by Silicon Valley insiders to build a regulatory moat around AI. Learn why sovereign, local-first architecture is our only defence against an emerging AI cartel.
Why Agentic Coding Won't Make Software Developers Extinct
A recent LinkedIn post claimed agentic AI coding will turn software development into a lost art like blacksmithing. Here is why that argument completely misses how technical abstractions actually work.
Being My Own First Customer: What Dogfooding the Rebuilt Foundry Actually Broke
When pointing the newly rebuilt Foundry at a real-world, 5,574-file monorepo, the context graph did not gracefully scale - it broke. Here are the 25 bugs, quadratic bottlenecks, and silent hallucinations uncovered by dogfooding an AI context substrate.
Would You Drive a Ferrari to the Corner Shop? Cut Your AI Costs with Smart Model Routing
Are skyrocketing AI bills eating into your budget? Learn why using frontier models for simple coding and utility tasks is like driving a supercar to buy milk, and how smart model routing can cut compute costs by up to 10x.
Taming the Slop: How I Ship Multi-Month Features in a Week with Agent Loops
Tired of AI generating unmaintainable code slop? Discover how orchestrating 8 to 12 concurrent Claude and Codex loops with spec-driven development allowed me to ship a multi-month feature in just one week.
Chasing the Perfect Project: How I Escaped Scope Creep and Rebuilt The Foundry
Trying to build the 'perfect' open-source project to gain stars and build a community can easily become a scope-creep trap. Here is how testing my CLI tool in a constrained work environment forced me to strip away the bloat and build something genuinely useful.