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Writing

Notes on agentic engineering, delivery measurement and the parts nobody writes about.

Technical writing

Articles I have published on dev.to, read from their API while this page was being built. The list is a snapshot: a post written after this build appears at the next deploy.

42 articles · 36 comments · 150 reactions · 7+ years

Latest articles

  • GenAI Changed the Cost of Coding. Why Are We Still Organizing Work the Same Way?

    6 min read

    Why agentic development should change how we organize teams, validate ideas, and decide what software deserves to survive.

    aisoftwareengineeringagileproductivity

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  • Inside My llama.cpp Setup: Tuning Qwen 3.8 27B for 512K Context

    7 min read

    A practical breakdown of my llama.cpp configuration for running Qwen 3.8 27B locally on an M5 Mac with 128 GB RAM — from MTP speculative decoding and 512K context to batching, KV cache, Flash Attention, and GPU utilization.

    aillmlocalllmllamacpp

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  • Learning how to BMAD

    4 min read

    Shift your engineering vector from writing syntax to orchestrating AI architecture. A tactical blueprint for scaling spec-driven development, managing context degradation, and liquidating technical debt at zero marginal cost.

    aisoftwareengineeringarchitecturebmad

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  • Schopenhauer in the Standup: 7 Rules to Neutralize a Toxic Boss

    4 min read

    Why smart engineers lose to toxic leadership, and the operational framework to neutralize manipulative behavior.

    careermanagementleadershipsoftwareengineering

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  • Stop Asking Which Agentic Coding Methodology to Use

    2 min read

    A breakdown of Superpowers, BMAD, OpenSpec, and other AI agent coding frameworks, and how to orchestrate them.

    aisoftwareengineeringarchitectureproductivity

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  • Stop Optimizing for Output: Why Software Engineering is a Discovery Problem

    3 min read

    Treating software engineering like a factory pipeline throttles velocity. Explore why compressing feedback cycles and optimizing for rapid learning are the true operational drivers of speed.

    softwareengineeringdevopsleadershipcontinuousdelivery

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  • Minimalistic architecture for Minimalistic product.

    2 min read

    Minimalistic architecture for Minimalistic product.

    architecturejavascriptes6node

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