Skills, Plugins, and MCP Oh My!
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Software Engineering¶
How I Actually Use the Damn Thing
Ok. Enough waxing poetic about AI. Here's how I use Claude Code to build software.
What I Found Actually Works with AI
Tools change. Models improve. Features ship faster than you can even imagine. But after months of experimenting with different AI tools and workflows, I noticed certain patterns kept appearing. Strategies and principles that yielded good results regardless of which shiny new thing I was using. And I found myself coming back to them time and time again.
Code is Now Cheap, Don't Devalue Yourself
AI is taking the world by storm, and no place more heavily than the software engineering industry. Agents are writing non-trivial percentages of production code bases to systems you are using every day now. What was once a scarce resource, code, is now cheaper than it's ever been. What it means to be a software engineer is changing fast, and those that don't adapt risk being left behind. So, in respect to adopting AI, as my great-grandmother would say, it's time to shit or get off the pot.
We're Witnessing the Evolution of Software Engineering
Change is inevitable. Technology advances, new tools emerge, productivity increases. The wheel keeps turning. The emergence of LLMs has had a Big Bang level impact on many industries, suddenly and almost violently changing what we know and how we think about everyday aspects of our life seemingly overnight. Love it or hate it, one thing's for certain. We're witnessing the evolution of software engineering in real time. And it's time to stop pretending like we aren't.
Tech Industry Interviews are Bullshit. Let's Make Them Better
If you ask almost any programmer what their least favorite part of the industry is, they'll likely say interviewing. The Tech industry has transformed what should be a simple process into an unholy nightmare. When a majority of your industry says it loathes the interview process, perhaps we should examine it more and attempt to make it better.
Year of the Linux Desktop
After decades of trying to ignore or straight up bashing Linux, Microsoft has finally embraced the loveable penguin. So much so that it ships a Linux kernel on your Windows OS by default! What does this mean for the sake of development? Is it finally the year of the Linux desktop?
New Website!
Every few years I grow tired of my website and build a new one. More often than not, it is actually me trying to simplify something that I made more complicated than it needed to be. After listening to friends and co-workers, I'm finally making the jump to static sites.