TEDWARD.NET · A WEEKLY DEV BLOG BY TED WARD
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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In the era of generative AI, teaching syntax line-by-line is obsolete.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.
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.
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.
