AI Engineering · 5 min read
What AI Coding Agents Change About Software Engineering
AI coding agents make writing code cheap. Here is what that changes about the job, what stays the same, and where engineers should invest.
AI Engineering
How software engineering changes (and what does not) when AI coding agents write a growing share of the code. Practical, opinionated and grounded in backend work.
AI Engineering · 4 min read
Reviewing AI-Generated Code: A Practical Checklist
A practical, repeatable checklist for reviewing code written by AI agents: correctness, security, dependencies, performance, tests and scope.
AI Engineering · 4 min read
Specs and Tests as the Interface for AI Agents
How to write requirements and executable tests that let an AI coding agent finish real work, and let you verify the result without trusting it.
AI Engineering · 6 min read
A Backend Engineer's Guide to Adding LLM Features Safely
Timeouts, retries, queues, caching, cost limits, output validation and privacy: how to add LLM features to a backend like any other unreliable dependency.
AI Engineering · 4 min read
Fundamentals Over Frameworks in the Age of AI
When AI generates the code, fundamentals are how you judge it. Real examples of the mistakes data-structure knowledge helps you catch in AI-written code.