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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The Missing Quality Layer for AI Coding Agents
There is a growing trend with more experienced teams adopting coding agents. They are moving past the first-order question of whether Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar tools can write useful code. The answer is increasingly yes. The ha...
How Teams Scale Claude Code Across Monorepos and Large Codebases
Large codebases expose different failure modes for AI coding assistants. They span teams, conventions, build systems, and naming rules. Generated files can outnumber source files, and the most useful answers often live outside the repo. An...
9 Principles That Separate Useful Skills from Markdown Essays
Software engineering settled long ago on a small set of higher-level principles that sit above specific implementation patterns: SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, separation of concerns. They tell you what to value when designing a system, not what to ty...
Distribution vs Escalation: When to Use Subagents or Advisors
The one-line difference
Subagents isolate context. Advisors unblock execution.
Both patterns add a second model inside a Claude agent, each with different strengths. A subagent takes a piece of the work off the main agent’s hands and...
12 MCP Patterns Behind Production Agents
A few weeks ago I pulled 12 agentic harness patterns from the Claude Code leak. Then I wrote about 14 patterns for authoring Skills, the layer that extends the agent. Anthropic keeps dropping excellent posts where they share what they are l...
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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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