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.
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.
9 Principles That Separate Useful Skills from Markdown Essays
A practical framework for deciding when a skill should fire, how it should run, and how it should survive over time.
Distribution vs Escalation: When to Use Subagents or Advisors
Two patterns for scaling a Claude agent. Both add a second model to the loop, each with different trade offs. Here’s when to reach for each, and when to…
12 MCP Patterns Behind Production Agents
A practical breakdown of the recurring design patterns behind real-world agent and mcp integrations.
Skill Authoring Patterns from Anthropic’s Best Practices
A practical breakdown of the recurring design patterns behind effective Claude Skills, from activation metadata to executable helpers.
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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