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Building Software with AI Is Addictive. I Mean That Literally.
AI gave me back the part of the job I loved. It also removed the friction that forced me to stop.
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AIAgentic DevelopmentAnthropic.NETSoftware ArchitectureClaude CodeDeveloper Productivity
Stop Chatting with Your LLM. Start Compiling.
Anthropic just shipped Programmatic Tool Calling, the feature that makes traditional tool calling look like dial-up. 37% fewer tokens. 13% higher accuracy. And a fundamentally different architecture.
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Most of the Code AI Learned From Is Garbage
Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start using AI coding agents: they trained on the internet. And most of the code on the internet is terrible. My job is to make sure it doesn't write like that for me.
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Your Two-Week Sprints Are Killing Your AI Strategy
78% of companies adopted AI. 80% saw no business impact. The generative AI paradox is real, and the Agile framework is the problem.
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Nine Months in the Trenches of Agentic Development. Three Things I Know for Sure.
After more than 30 years of traditional software engineering, I went all in on agentic development. Not to dabble, but to build a complex new platform entirely from scratch this way. Here's what's real.
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SQLPerformanceSQL Server.NET
SQL Index Tuning: The Fundamentals I Keep Coming Back To
After years of chasing slow queries, most of the wins come down to a handful of indexing patterns. Here's the mental model I use every time.
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Ditching Exceptions for the Result Pattern in .NET
Exceptions are the wrong tool for expected failures. The Result pattern makes error paths explicit, composable, and testable. Here's how I use it in C#.
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