#developer-tools
11 essays tagged "developer-tools".
A Claude Code skill that reads a codebase and generates a self-contained HTML course with scroll-based navigation, animated visualizations, and quizzes.
PANDA is a VS Code extension that reads your Copilot and Claude Code sessions, computes developer analytics, and generates narrative reports about how you actually work with AI.
Most engineers are solving the wrong problem with AI. The real leverage is not getting faster, it is building systems that make asking unnecessary.
The real shift is not chat. It is agents. Drop an .agent.md file into your repo and stop repeating context.
Have not had this 'wait, this changes everything' feeling since ChatGPT dropped. It is what Siri was supposed to be 13 years ago.
Why AI tools deliver 300% gains for some teams and 10% for others. The answer is not the tools.
The difference between mediocre and exceptional AI output is not the model. It is the prompt. Here is how to treat prompts as engineered artifacts.
After analyzing hundreds of AI-generated code issues, six categories of missing context explain nearly every failure. Here is how to fix each one.
The gap between AI-assisted teams (10-30% gains) and AI-ready teams (100-300% gains) is not the tools. It is the context.
Is it still coding if a significant part of your code is written by AI? The role of the staff and principal engineer is fundamentally changing.
We rewrote a service with zero documentation and passed all the tests. The tests were not enough.