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Part 1 · The Agent Stack

The AI Code Review Gauntlet

AI code fails in predictable, well-documented ways. Here's the review gauntlet — five failure classes and the fast tells that catch the most damage per minute of attention.

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Part 2 · The Agent Stack

Running a Team of Agents Without the Chaos

You've gone from conductor to orchestrator. The bottleneck moved from the agent's capability to coordination — here's how to run parallel agents without quietly corrupting your codebase.

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Part 3 · The Agent Stack

Loop Engineering

The people who build the most-used coding agents stopped hand-prompting. The unit of work is no longer a prompt — it's a loop that prompts, checks, remembers, and re-runs the agent for you.

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Design · Working with AI

Stop Shipping AI-Looking Websites

Every AI-generated site has the same tell. The fix isn't a better tool — it's directing the model with a real brief, a design plan, and your boldness spent in exactly one place.

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Part 1 · Beyond the Prompt

Your AI Coding Agent Doesn't Need a Better Prompt

The honeymoon with “vibe coding” ends the moment you point an agent at a real, messy codebase. What replaces it is a discipline, not a trick.

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Part 2 · Beyond the Prompt

A Bigger Context Window Won't Save You

The fix for an AI agent that keeps getting your codebase wrong is rarely a smarter model or a longer context window. It's deciding, deliberately, what the model gets to see.

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Part 3 · Beyond the Prompt

Five Ways to Keep Your AI Agent From Shipping Insecure Code

AI agents write code fast, and they write insecure code with exactly the same confidence as secure code. Here are five practices that raise the floor.

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