The Generative Programmer

The Generative Programmer

From Test-Driven to Loop-Driven Development

The evolution of AI coding from tests and prompts to agents, harnesses, and supervised loops.
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From Test-Driven to Loop-Driven Development
The evolution of AI coding from tests and prompts to agents, harnesses, and supervised loops.
Emerging Markdown Formats That Shape Coding Agent Behavior
A practical map of the rules, procedures, plans, domain knowledge, and memory that guide agent-assisted software changes.
How AI Adoption Progresses Inside Organizations
Each phase adds capabilities that let teams do more with AI until the next bottleneck appears.
5 Software Disciplines That Keep AI Skills From Rotting
Skills are reusable units of agent context, so they can decay like code. Here are five engineering practices that keep them alive.
10 Claude Code Steering Mechanisms That Stop Agents From Ignoring Instructions
A practical map for choosing between memory, rules, skills, hooks, permissions, subagents, output styles, and MCP.
20+ Agent Skills, Repos, and Marketplaces Worth Bookmarking
An opinionated shelf of agent skills, collections, marketplaces, and adjacent tools worth installing, bookmarking, or using as templates for your own.
Stop Babysitting Your Coding Agent. Give It Backpressure.
Backpressure is feedback that reaches the agent before the agent reaches the human.
The Missing Quality Layer for AI Coding Agents
As coding agents get better at writing code, the next challenge is proving the code is safe to merge.
How Teams Scale Claude Code Across Monorepos and Large Codebases
Thirteen patterns for making Claude Code work across monorepos, shared conventions, generated files, and organizational rollout.
The Generative Programmer
The Generative Programmer
For software builders: the emerging patterns in coding, architecture, and product development in the age of generative AI.
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