Posts tagged “best-practices”

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March 25, 202612 min read

I Let AI Agents Maintain a Codebase for 6 Months. 75% of the Time, They Broke What Already Worked.

AI coding agents are great at generating new code but catastrophically bad at long-term maintenance. I tested them on real codebases — here is what actually breaks, why, and the engineering guardrails that make them usable.

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March 6, 202614 min read

Stop Being a Headless Monkey: How Developers Should Use AI

AI coding assistants are powerful, but using them without structure leads to unmaintainable code, eroded skills, and team dysfunction. Here is how to use AI deliberately.

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