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23 August 2026•5m

Your Skills are Your Skills

Skill marketplaces sell reusable AI skills, but skills are shaped by their author's context and can't be tested in isolation. Benchmark your agentic loops instead.

8 August 2026•8m

Coding faster than Comprehension

A chronological look at coding with AI, from Copilot to agentic engineering, and why decision logs now replace reading the code itself.

15 May 2026•3m

Grill Me, the Skill That Cooks Your Brain

Why the popular 'grill-me' AI skill quietly outsources your critical thinking, and how to interrogate ideas without switching your brain off.

11 April 2026•14m

What Makes a Good Prompt?

Why some one-line prompts work brilliantly and others fail badly, and the one habit, encoding intent, that makes AI outputs match what you actually wanted.

24 March 2026•8m

Overcomplicating AI

Most AI advice is overcomplicated. The real trick is using less AI, backed by objective guardrails like tests, not more prompts, tools or process.

Developer

28 April 2025•5m

Action, Openness, Purpose: Three Key Behaviors of Effective Developers

Three behaviours that set effective developers apart: taking ownership beyond their lane, open communication, and practising with real purpose.

21 April 2025•5m

AI Workflows - Removing the Tedium

AI is divisive, but used well it cuts real tedium: scripts, tests, messy data and dead-end searches. Here's how I use it.

TDD

20 April 2025•3m

TDD, Test Driven Demise

TDD is great for taming complex problems, but it can cement flawed designs early. Here's when to use it and when to test less rigidly.