When AI writes all the code
I delegate implementation to agents while staying involved in design, evaluating larger features, and checking that the whole application works as I expect.
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How I think about agentic work, part one: loops
The loops I use to fix bugs, build features, and start projects with agents, and why I'd rather be on the loop than in it or out of it.
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I'm a principal engineer learning new things, building useful tools, and figuring out what I want from my work. These are the field notes.
I work on the AI infrastructure team at Cloudflare. Before that I ran my own startup, Flipt, and before that I helped build GitHub Container Registry.
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