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The 6-Layer Shield — Architecting for Agents

Agents don't read documentation — they hit walls. The 6-Layer Shield is an architectural model that turns your codebase into a habitat with mechanically enforced boundaries, so agents can't drift into chaos.

17 March 2026

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1,500 PRs in 5 Months — The OpenAI Harness Benchmark

OpenAI's Harness team shipped ~1 million lines of production code with zero manual code — 1,500 PRs, 3.5 PRs/day/engineer, 90% time savings. Here's what it means for the future of software delivery.

16 March 2026

Why Modular AI Agent Architecture Outperforms Monolithic Tools for Complex Workflows

Modular AI agent architectures with Pi, Tallow, and TillDone outperform monolithic tools for complex migrations and multi-agent orchestration. Learn why control and context flexibility matter more than batteries-included polish.

16 March 2026

The Scarcity Inversion — Why Your Keyboard is Becoming Obsolete

Code generation is now infinite and free. The bottleneck has moved from writing code to architectural oversight — and that changes everything.

10 March 2026

Harness Engineering

A series on the emerging discipline of building infrastructure for AI agents — architectural oversight, constraint systems, and the shift from writing code to directing it.

10 March 2026

Prototypes Over PRDs: What Boris Cherny's Claude Code Team Taught Me About the Future of Building

Boris Cherny's team shipped Claude Cowork in 10 days without a single PRD. As an engineering leader and part-time entrepreneur, here's why I think the bottleneck has permanently shifted from 'can we build it' to 'should we ship it.'

7 March 2026

GPT-5.4: OpenAI's Most Ambitious Model Release Yet

A breakdown of GPT-5.4's technical architecture, native computer use capabilities, and what the release means for the AI industry.

6 March 2026

Beyond the Static: Rebuilding with React Router 7 and AI Agents

How I broke a two-year development hiatus by leveraging agentic workflows to migrate from 11ty to a modern React Router 7 architecture.

1 March 2026

An experiment with image processing using sharpjs, resemblejs and fast-csv

I built a simple cli tool to read csv files with image pairs and output how well they match in another file using fast-csv for reading/writing the files, sharpjs for image transformations and resemble js for visually matching the images.

6 April 2022

Getting started with Keycloak

An introduction to Keycloak & speeding through authentication for modern microservices

23 December 2021

Securing NestJS with Keycloak

Learn how to secure a NestJS application using the Keycloak IDP and its adapters for nest

23 December 2021

The journey to 11ty !

How I went from Gatsby to Hugo to Eleventy and finally got my website back up and running

27 October 2021