Practical lessons on working with AI agents, building AI infrastructure, and shipping production software.
Get in TouchAs coding agents get more capable, the craft shifts from writing every line to shaping the tools and feedback loops around them. Here's why I built AgentLink inside VS Code.
The speed of our OpenAPI linter wasn't achieved through profiling and micro-optimization. It came from designing the right abstractions from day one. Here's what I learned building a linter that processes 81K lines in 1.7 seconds.
OpenAPI is often dismissed as just documentation. But teams that treat it as infrastructure unlock automation, consistency, and scale across SDKs, docs, testing, and platform tooling.
Vibe coding has taken hold, but it's not how I get consistently high-quality results. Here's the workflow I use to get the best from AI agents while avoiding the slop.
After years of procrastination, I finally built and launched tristancartledge.com using AI-Directed Development. Here's how modern tooling made it possible.
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