Practical patterns for building with AI

The Generative Programmer is for developers, architects, and technical leads using AI to build software and creating agentic systems.

Learn how to work with coding agents, build reusable agent skills, and build systems you can operate and improve.

What you’ll learn

• AI-assisted coding: Practical workflows, skills, and tools for working with Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents.

• Agent skills and context: How to package reusable instructions and workflows into skills, give agents the context they need, and decide where it belongs.

• Agent architecture: Patterns for connecting models, tools, memory, and workflows, with the trade-offs behind each choice.

• Agent operations: How to evaluate behavior, control actions, handle failures, and improve reliability.

Expect pattern catalogs, landscape maps, and practical guides that help you choose an approach and understand when to use it.

Who writes it

Hi, I’m Bilgin Ibryam. I work on agentic infrastructure with enterprises adopting AI, and previously worked as an architect at Red Hat. Across these roles, I’ve worked with hundreds of enterprise customers to turn emerging technologies into production systems.

I’m the co-author of Kubernetes Patterns, author of Camel Design Patterns, and currently writing Prompt Patterns.

I’m addicted to patterns. I like finding the recurring structure inside messy engineering problems and turning it into something others can recognize, adapt, and reuse. Here, I apply that habit to AI-assisted development and agentic systems.

Start here

• 10 Claude Code Steering Mechanisms That Stop Agents From Ignoring Instructions: Choose where instructions, skills, hooks, and permissions belong in your coding workflow.

• Designing Agent Context by Scope and Time: Decide what information an agent needs, when it needs it, and how widely it should apply.

• Latency Patterns for Faster AI Applications: Apply distributed-systems patterns to reduce latency around model calls.

Free and paid membership

Subscribe free for articles, pattern catalogs, and practical guides on building with AI.

Paid membership supports my writing and includes early access to books I’m working on, premium articles and resources as I create them, and direct access to me by email or DM.

That includes Prompt Patterns, my book in progress on improving how we work with large language models.

Collaboration

Have a question, idea, or opportunity to discuss? Get in touch about speaking, writing, sponsorship, or technical collaboration.

Email bibryam@gmail.com, or find me on LinkedIn and X.

You can learn more about my background and previous work on my personal blog.