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An AI agent writes fluent prose. It also writes whatever you ask for. Tell it to add a hero section and it will produce "We're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge solutions." Tell it to write an FAQ answer and it will open with "Great… (more)

An AI agent has no visibility into accumulating work-in-progress. It works on the current prompt. Meanwhile, uncommitted changes grow, commits pile up without a push, changesets go unwritten, and a release PR sits open for days. The accumulation… (more)

In the previous post I described a pipeline where every push to main ends with a live preview of the production candidate, smoke-tested and ready for human review. The idea is that nothing ships without you seeing it running. There's a gap, though.… (more)

I use AI to write most of my code. Cursor, Claude, the whole stack. I ship faster than I ever have. I also use AI to write most of my tests. Which means my tests might be wrong in exactly the same ways my code is wrong. The AI imagines the happy… (more)

Round-ups are an awesome way to save or invest . It's cool, it's new (from what I can find it was launched by Acorns in 2014 ) and it's painless. It works, because rather than asking you to be disciplined and fight your consumerism, it leverages it.… (more)

OK, I've had enough. I'm over teams "doing Agile" like it involves following a prescribed set of processes with a prescribed set of "ceremonies". Just the term "ceremonies" should be a BIG RED warning sign. I've even starting to wonder if faux agile… (more)

Here's a quick script that can be used to wait until a Docker container reports the status is heathly (or not). It assumes the image has HEALTHCHECK configured First arg is the container ID. !/bin/bash while true do STATUS=docker inspect… (more)

Fast and accurate feedback is critical for fast and efficient software delivery, but its benefits go far beyond those typically described by the agile, lean and DevOps communities. Since its inception, agile development has encouraged feedback[^1]… (more)

I went looking for an XML Schema for the XML produced by Apache Ant's JUnit task and JUnitReport task and couldn't find one through Google, so I created one. Here it is, based on the code in Apache Ant 1.8.2: JUnit.xsd on GitHub The schema is… (more)