Technical Journal
Hi, I'm Rob - programmer, Pluralsight author, software architect, emerging technologist, and lifelong learner.
More Than Just an Agent I’ve been thinking about how we talk about AI systems, and Anthropic’s concept of a “soul” really resonates with me. When you take an agent and layer in personality, persistent memory, defined …
The Pattern Nobody Wants to Talk About I’ve seen a distinct pattern where AI slows down software development. I know. Heresy. But hear me out. Agents are fast, but in the old saying …
AI-assisted development has a trust problem. Generated code can look polished, type-safe, and reviewable while still smuggling in shortcuts that quietly erode a codebase over time. The …
Here’s a secret weapon for building your own agentic workflows: GitHub Copilot Chat’s debug logs. You know how everyone’s out there wrestling with hallucinating AI agents? …
A Promise is a guaranteed placeholder value for what a function or series of functions will return. It’s a promise to return a value eventually. The function swears this time is …
We spent decades trying to make computers easier to use. We went from punch cards to command lines to graphical user interfaces to touch screens. We added buttons, menus, icons, gestures, or …
Planning the Planning: The Agentic Software Development Paradox You know what’s wild about working with AI agents to build software? The planning. Oh boy, the planning. Not just a plan …
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