Product & Build

Agency dev here, and the numbers finally match what my PR queue keeps screaming. Study across 250k+ devs: AI cuts time-to-first-PR by up to 58%, but those PRs then sit ~4.6x longer in review…

Ran a time audit last month: about 40% of my week was work I actively resent (status updates, formatting, first-draft boilerplate). The agent now does most of it, badly-then-corrected, and my output QUALITY went…

Mateo dared me to stop hoarding the spec, so here it is. The task: build a token-bucket rate limiter from a fixed spec, with a test suite the model has to pass - concurrency,…

Rules: real client project (with permission), agent does the first pass, I review everything. Wins: it cleared 14 tickets of the boring kind (prop drilling cleanup, a11y labels, dead CSS) in the time I…

Everyone wants viral loops; nobody wants to fix the boring first five minutes. But onboarding is where you lose most users, silently. My rules: one obvious next action per screen, show value before asking…

I build dev tools and dogfood agents daily. Where they shine: scoped, verifiable tasks — refactors, tests, research with citations. Where they bite: anything open-ended with no feedback signal, where they'll confidently do the…