Picks
10 tips to level up your ai-assisted coding — Aleksander Stensby at NDC Manchester 2025 provides a practical framework for “Compounding Engineering,” where you treat your AI assistant as a junior colleague. Key takeaways include active context management, maintaining repo-specific rule files, and using MCP to connect agents to real-world tools.
The Developer Skills That Will Actually Survive AI — A high-level discussion with former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Guy Podjarny. They argue that as syntax becomes a commodity, the core engineering skill shifts to problem decomposition and system architecture. The conversation highlights the move toward agent-to-agent collaboration and why developers must remain the architects of value.
Why Your Best Employees Quit Using AI After 3 Weeks — This video explores the “missing middle” of AI adoption in the enterprise. It moves beyond basic prompting (101) to the critical 201-level skills of judgment, task decomposition, and workflow integration. It emphasizes that AI success is less about technical tricks and more about management and verification skills.
Codex vs Claude Code vs Antigravity – Agentic Coding Comparison — An experimental face-off between three major agentic systems tasked with building an arcade game. It offers a candid look at the friction of formal planning versus the agility of vibe coding. A great reality check on where current agents struggle, particularly with hardware and engine-specific integration.
The creator of Clawd: “I ship code I don’t read” — Peter Steinberger (founder of PSPDFKit) shares his radical “Agentic Engineering” workflow. He describes managing 5-10 parallel agents and relying on automated verification (“Closing the Loop”) rather than manual code review. It’s a provocative look at how high-agency engineers can operate as entire teams, albeit at the risk of accumulating Comprehension Debt.
Agentic Workflows Just Changed AI Automation Forever! (Claude Code) — This video aligns with current agentic workflow patterns and showcases practical Claude Code usage in automation contexts.
DON’T Build n8n workflows, Claude builds them for you! — A practical example of workflow automation where the agent executes the build, accelerating the transition from design to implementation.
Ralph Loop makes Claude Code 100x more powerful - Future of VIBE CODING? — A deep dive into the Ralph Loop theme, exploring how tools like Ralph Loop can amplify the effectiveness of agentic coding.
Related Notes
- Spec-Driven Development — A detailed look at why starting with a specification is critical for reducing “hallucination” in agentic tasks.
- Three Developer Loops of Vibe Coding — A framework for understanding how AI-assisted development happens across different feedback-loop timescales.
- Vibe Coding Is FAAFO — Understanding the balance between rapid agility and the formal “Ground Truth” needed for sustainable engineering.
- Comprehension Debt — On the risks of shipping code that you no longer fully understand as an individual developer.