Show Notes
I lead engineering at a Fortune 100 company, and I still ship my own software. Not because leaders need to prove they can code, but because AI is changing the work faster than secondhand models can keep up. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-06-26-still-in-the-code/
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A change can pass release checks after an agent has exceeded its authority. Platforms need controls during execution, with evidence that those controls hold even when the model follows a malicious instruction. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-10-12-the-prompt-is-not-the-permission-securing-the-agentic-sdlc/
In May I named the argument underneath a year of writing. Five months later, I'd keep the argument and narrow several claims. Here is what changed, what survived, and what I still can't prove. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-10-08-the-bottleneck-is-never-the-stack-what-held-and-what-moved/
TypeSafe's Jev gives up prose for typed, probabilistic decisions. The engineering work is defining those decisions, measuring their errors, and deciding when software should ask for help. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-10-03-jev-is-not-a-faster-llm/
I've used five personal agents to help with the work of everyday life. A restaurant call, a changed appointment, and a playoff-ticket search show what I can hand over, what still needs my decision, and how I know the job is finished. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-10-01-the-return-of-the-personal-agent/
Building a portable software-development workflow across Claude Code, Codex, Goose, Pi and OpenCode. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-09-30-the-agent-is-not-the-platform/