Architecture

I published six articles this week. One about PostgreSQL. Another about AI agents. Another on context management. A tutorial on automation. An analysis of debugging. And an adversarial advice framework for evaluating MVPs. It wasn’t planned. Each article came from a paper, a talk, or a project that I found interesting individually. But looking at them together, there’s a common thread I hadn’t noticed while writing them. All six are saying the same thing. ...

The first time I used Claude Code to refactor an entire module, it felt almost mystical. I described what I wanted, went to grab a coffee, and when I came back, there was a pull request with 14 files changed, updated tests, and a decent commit message. “This is magic,” I thought. It’s not magic. It’s a while loop. Michael Bolin from OpenAI recently published an article dissecting the internals of Codex CLI. And it turns out that the secret behind AI coding agents isn’t a groundbreaking algorithm or an enigmatic neural network. It’s a loop that calls an LLM, executes tools, and repeats until there’s nothing left to do. ...