Get Stuff Done
Look, I’m going to be direct here. If you are not using AI agentic coding methods right now - today - you are going too slow. Not “a little behind.” Not “maybe missing something.” Too damn slow.
How the AMD ISP4 Camera Stack Broke My ZBook Trackpad (and How Claude Helped Me Find It)
One morning I opened my HP ZBook Ultra G1a and the trackpad was dead. Keyboard fine. Touchscreen fine. External mouse fine. Trackpad: nothing. Twelve hours earlier it had worked. I hadn’t changed anything. Welcome to bleeding-edge silicon on Linux.
Agentic Coding is About to Fracture Open Source
Open source is about to get a lot messier. Not because the code is getting worse – because AI agents just changed the economics of “fork it and fix it yourself.”
Where I Learned Excellence
I’ve been thinking a lot about excellence lately. Not the motivational-poster kind. The real kind – the kind that gets baked into your bones when you’re twenty-two years old and surrounded by people who simply will not accept anything less. For me, that happened on a nuclear submarine.
My Janky Little Git Scripts That Keep Me Sane
I have a confession. I have a folder full of tiny bash scripts that make my life with GitHub dramatically easier. They’re not fancy. They’re not trying to be a framework. They are blunt instruments that solve real problems I have every single day.
Tooling Is the New Model
The AI models are good enough. There, I said it. The bottleneck isn’t the model anymore – it’s how you use it.
What Would Grace Say?
Grace Hopper built the first compiler in 1952. They said “you can’t make them understand English-like instructions.” She had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. Sound familiar? Grace had some thoughts about this kind of thinking. She had a lot of thoughts, actually.
Builders Build
From a certain point of view, there are two kinds of people in the world: builders and not-builders. This isn’t judgment—it’s observation. Some people consume. Others create. Builders can’t help it.
SaaS is Dead, Long Live Platforms
AI has made code cheap and abundant. The scarce resource is now knowing what to build, not how. This is creating a rapid split between companies that sell workflows and companies that sell capabilities. Only one of these will survive.
Guest Post: Robots and Drones Are the Same Thing (And Pretending Otherwise Is Holding Us Back)
Guest Post by Luca Herlein
The artificial divide between robotics and drone ecosystems made sense once. Today, it’s holding back the entire industry.