It was February 2026 when I realised that software development had completely changed and I essentially stopped writing code by hand. Over the next couple of months I changed our Linear statuses and set up a couple of claude code instances, running in tmux, with cron jobs set to deal with various scenarios. The...

The other day I was saying I was bored and confused with the role of software developer. But I think I may have a bit of clarity now. Maybe I’m not bored and confused. Maybe I just hate it all. I received an email from Ruby Central the other day. I can’t remember what it said. But I did remember the shit-show over...

I’m bored. And I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ve been writing software for about thirty-five years. I’ve been getting paid for writing software for almost thirty years. In February I realised that what I did had fundamentally changed. That’s right, I’m talking about coding agents. I’m still working as...

I really enjoyed this fable of the product that’s built too quickly. I’m sure it’s extremely familiar to many of you. It’s the story of a startup that aims to build a next-generation oven. They get funding on the back of a pitch deck, then build the prototype. It’s a long way short of perfect, but is good enough to...

Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash This is a bit of a rant. There have been a lot of reports recently about LLM agents “going rogue”. Hacking into other companies, doing stuff that they weren’t supposed to do. I’m not saying it’s great that they’re doing these things. But I am taking issue with the reporting. These...

Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash This is a bit of a rant. There have been a lot of reports recently about LLM agents “going rogue”. Hacking into other companies, doing stuff that they weren’t supposed to do. I’m not saying it’s great that they’re doing these things. But I am taking issue with the reporting. These...

Many years ago I remember seeing an interview with Linus Torvalds, where he said “… and that change is to keep the weird folks, like the rubyists, happy”. I loved that. The rest of the software development world thinks we’re odd. And not just because some key figures in the ruby world have taken a trip down nazi...

Many years ago I remember seeing an interview with Linus Torvalds, where he said “… and that change is to keep the weird folks, like the rubyists, happy”. I loved that. The rest of the software development world thinks we’re odd. And not just because some key figures in the ruby world have taken a trip down nazi...

So I currently have three clankers working for me, currently, all built using Claude Code. However, only one of them works in the traditional "here is a prompt, now go and build the software" kind of way. We use Linear for issue tracking. It's not the greatest software in the world - but then I don't think there's...

So I currently have three clankers working for me, currently, all built using Claude Code. However, only one of them works in the traditional "here is a prompt, now go and build the software" kind of way. We use Linear for issue tracking. It's not the greatest software in the world - but then I don't think there's...

I've been using mockdown a lot recently. It's a free drawing app - but instead of recording pixels or vectors, it just records plain text. Which means, if you've already got a decent design system, you can sketch out a form or page design and give it to your clankers to build.

I've been using mockdown a lot recently. It's a free drawing app - but instead of recording pixels or vectors, it just records plain text. Which means, if you've already got a decent design system, you can sketch out a form or page design and give it to your clankers to build.