AI Coding

I ran the same coding task through four AI coding tools this week - opencode, Pi, GitHub Copilot in VS Code, and Claude Code - all driven by the same local

The previous article, Tool-Surface Compression, was about getting external functionality, entire APIs and systems, into the agent as token-efficiently as

2,500 API endpoints. Expose every one of them as an MCP tool and you get, according to Cloudflare, 1.17 million tokens for tool definitions alone, before the

It took me three iterations to implement a straightforward feature across two repositories. Not because the model was inadequate — same model, same task. The

In the late 1960s, Melvin Conway submits a paper on computer manufacturers and compiler design to the Harvard Business Review. They reject it -- insufficient

In Part 1 of this series, we worked through the why: Shapiro's five levels of AI development, Brynjolfsson's J-Curve, and the core thesis that AI tools alone

In Part 1 of this series, we covered the why: why AI tools alone don't deliver productivity, what Shapiro's five levels have to do with Brynjolfsson's J-Curve,

90% of developers who consider themselves "AI-native" are sitting at Level 2 out of 51. Most believe they're done. They are not. That's not my claim

How does AI change how we work? Everyone's asking that question right now. But thinking about it gets you nowhere. You only feel the difference by doing it --

The current debate around Claude Code and Open Code is mostly told as a pricing dispute: Anthropic locked third-party apps out of the subsidized subscription