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Your Agent Instructions Are Probably Making Things Worse. Here's How to Fix Them.
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Your Agent Instructions Are Probably Making Things Worse. Here's How to Fix Them.

Most developers overload their AI agent instruction files with rules that actively degrade performance. Learn why shorter, failure-backed instructions dramatically outperform long rulebooks, and get a practical framework for pruning your CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, or copilot-instructions.md down to...

The Timeline Is Gaslighting You About AI

The Timeline Is Gaslighting You About AI

If AI timelines and layoff headlines are making you feel behind, this is a reminder that the loudest voices are not a reflection of the industry. Most teams are still figuring this out, and the real bottlenecks in software development have not changed.

One AI Coding Agent Is Not Enough

One AI Coding Agent Is Not Enough

A practical default-plus-handoff workflow for AI development: keep one coding agent as your default, then use ACPX to route design-heavy or specialized tasks to better-suited models.

The Weekly Dev's Brew Is Pivoting

After 31 newsletter issues curating JavaScript links, The Weekly Dev's Brew is shifting to AI in developer workflows. What changed, what's coming, and why I think this matters more.

Back in Action: Reflections and Plans

Back in Action: Reflections and Plans

Back from paternity leave: A reflection on balancing developer advocacy at JetBrains with personal growth. Join me as I share insights from a transformative year, celebrating fitness milestones, community connections, and exciting plans for content creation.