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July 7, 2026

Two Years of AI in Daily Life

Two years of ordinary AI use outside the code editor, and the habits that quietly shifted.
June 30, 2026

You Own What You Send

Generating text is easy now. Communicating still takes work. Here is what that means for the people you work with.
June 18, 2026

Making Room for Junior Developers to Struggle

If struggle is where developers grow, team leads need to protect some of it from AI.
June 3, 2026

Why OpenForge Moved from Tauri to Electron

The lean runtime argument is compelling until you need to debug something inside it. For developer tooling, observability should come before footprint.
May 22, 2026

Just read the diff

When an agent stops, what it leaves behind is raw output. The real product is the handoff: structured, reviewable, and safe for a human to take over.
May 6, 2026

Cognitive Debt and the Thinking Muscle

Every thinking task you hand off is cheap in the moment. The compounding is not.
May 4, 2026

Open Forge: a command center for AI coding agents

Open Forge is a local desktop app for managing AI coding agents without giving up control of the work.
April 29, 2026

The Erosion of Struggle

AI fills the gaps before your brain gets a chance to. That might be costing you more than you think.
April 20, 2026

The Attention Cost of Agentic Development

Running multiple AI agents in parallel feels productive. It might be costing you the one thing that makes hard work good.
April 3, 2026

Focus Is the Feature

The new wave of agentic tools optimizes for more. More agents, more visibility, more notifications. That might be the wrong direction.
March 27, 2026

The Dirty Code Backlog — Why AI Should Learn When to Fix and When to Queue

AI coding agents should act more like senior engineers: fix what matters now, and log the rest as reviewable backlog work.
March 27, 2026

When AI Orchestrates, Not Just Writes

Getting good results from AI coding tools is a workflow problem. The next step is AI that manages that workflow.