2026-05-05 08:00:00
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and there is nothing left to check. For software engineers the line between the two moves under your feet most days, and most of us are crossing it without noticing.
2026-05-03 08:00:00
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skills encodes those senior-engineer behaviors as workflows the agent has to follow, with anti-rationalization built in.
2026-04-28 08:00:00
A long-running agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks. It can do this across many context windows and sandboxes, recover from failure, leave structured artifacts behind, and resume where it left off.
2026-04-19 08:00:00
A coding agent is the model plus everything you build around it: prompts, tools, context policies, hooks, sandboxes, feedback loops. Harness engineering is the discipline of treating that scaffolding as a first-class artifact, and tightening it every time the agent slips.
2026-04-11 08:00:00
AI coding agents consume documentation fundamentally differently from humans. If you're still optimizing only for human readers, you're leaving a growing share of your audience invisible to your tooling.
2026-04-07 08:00:00
Running multiple agents in parallel is not just a question of throughput. It is a new kind of cognitive labor that requires managing multiple mental models, continuous judgment calls, and an ambient anxiety tax
