The Generative Programmer
Bilgin IbryamFor software builders: the emerging patterns in coding, architecture, and product development in the age of generative AI.
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Designing Agent Context by Scope and Time
When an agent performs poorly, we tend to blame the model. The next fix is often to expand the system prompt. When that becomes unwieldy, the following move is to add another agent. All can help, but they skip a more useful design question:...
10 Open-Source Projects for Securing AI Agent Skills
In July, Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion driven end to end by an autonomous AI agent, starting with a malicious dataset and reaching credential harvesting and lateral movement across internal clusters. SkillScan researchers analyzed 31,...
Emerging Markdown Formats That Shape Coding Agent Behavior
For years, the knowledge required to change software lived in many places. Non-functional requirements (NFRs), architectural constraints, and design decisions were captured in solution architecture documents, ADRs, security reviews, and wik...
How AI Adoption Progresses Inside Organizations
In a recent X post, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny describes a pattern he keeps seeing: one engineer gets dramatically faster with Claude, while the rest of the organization may not move at the same pace.
His framework maps how that wide...
5 Software Disciplines That Keep AI Skills From Rotting
I have spent a lot of words lately on how to write a good skill: the authoring patterns, the principles that separate a useful skill from a markdown essay, and the collections worth installing. They all answer how to make a skill that works...
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I organize what I learn about AI and software into patterns, landscapes, and frameworks developers can use. Co-author of Kubernetes Patterns. Currently writing Prompt Patterns.
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