Category: Software Engineering

Software engineering practices, architecture, and design patterns

From AI Harness to Software Factory: A Practical Agentic Engineering Stack

Over the past year, working with AI-powered development tools has taught me that what started as an “AI harness”—a simple wrapper around an LLM—has evolved into something more industrial: a software factory. A harness is about capability; a factory is about repeatability, auditability, and team ownership. This post describes the architecture I’ve settled on for… Continue reading From AI Harness to Software Factory: A Practical Agentic Engineering Stack

(Strict) Precommit Hooks: Shifting AI Feedback Left

I’ve been working with AI assisted coding for a long while now and I’ve gotten to experience the strength but also the weaknesses of agent coding. I’ve found a current set up that helps mitigate the weaknesses that involves strict quality gates at the time of commit. The goal? Never commit “bad” code! At first… Continue reading (Strict) Precommit Hooks: Shifting AI Feedback Left

Small List of What I’m Working On

I’m really embracing agentic programming. The coding models have gotten good enough and I’ve obtained enough experience to know what sort of tools to give my agent access to so it can check its work when it stumbles. Bonus: I’m using PeonPing/peon-ping to help me maintain multiple agents while making programming even more like an… Continue reading Small List of What I’m Working On

Thoughts on catching process lifecycle signals for running game server processes

TIL: godot/unity/unreal don’t let you write code for when a process lifecycle signal is sent to the running process. That means if you’re running a godot game server process as a systemd service and decide to “systemctl stop” the running server instance, you can’t write GDscript to catch that “graceful shutdown request (SIGTERM)” signal! One… Continue reading Thoughts on catching process lifecycle signals for running game server processes

Local-first, Offline-first Programming with AI: When?

AI usage among programmers has only increased since its introduction. We began with a chat interface that we could query, craft program solutions, and copy + paste into our projects. Then we got AI assisted development patterns where the AI could sit in your editor and provide suggestions. We’re at a stage now where its… Continue reading Local-first, Offline-first Programming with AI: When?

🤖 Embracing AI technology

I’m surprised when there is new technology that I predicted. On a hiking trip in the southern part of that US state I’m in I realized that the progression of software creation was towards more abstraction. I realized that the programming languages, libraries, and frameworks at that time were progressing more towards how one’s primary… Continue reading 🤖 Embracing AI technology