Your MCP Servers Are Burning Your Agent's Context Window
Tool definitions load into context before an agent does anything. Code execution and progressive disclosure are how teams are getting that budget back.
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The Temporal API Is Here. Here's How to Actually Start Using It
JavaScript's Date object finally has a real replacement, and it's usable in production sooner than you'd think.
6 min readAI Is Forking the Engineering Manager Role Into Two Jobs
Middle management is flattening industry-wide. What survives of engineering management is splitting into two tracks that need almost opposite skills.
7 min readSpec-Driven Development: Why the Spec Is Becoming the New Code Review
Prompts drift. A versioned spec is how teams are catching it before it ships.
7 min readUsing CSS's New if() Function Without Breaking Safari and Firefox
One inline conditional to replace three separate at-rules, once the rest of the web catches up.
5 min readCSS Can Finally Replace Your Tooltip and Dropdown Libraries
Anchor positioning and customizable selects both have real browser support now. Here's what to drop, what to keep, and where the gaps still bite.
5 min readWhy AI Coding Agents Need WIP Limits Too
A framework for deciding how many agents one engineer can actually run at once.
6 min readMigrating to TypeScript 7 Without Breaking Your Toolchain
The native compiler is 8-12x faster. The programmatic API isn't ready yet, and that's where teams get burned.
5 min readHow to Orchestrate Multiple AI Coding Agents Without Losing Architectural Control
A framework for staff engineers directing several agents at once, not just reviewing what one of them wrote.
5 min readKeeping the Junior Engineering Pipeline Alive in the AI Era
A framework for growing junior engineers now that AI has automated most of the entry-level workload.
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