Hammock driven development 5 minutes read — 08 May 2026

You’ve heard of TDD, and more recently also SDD (spec driven development)… but have you heard of HDD — aka Hammock driven development? I recently came across a video gifted to me by the YouTube algorithmic gods with a catchy enough title that sounded more like a “honest bait” than a clickbait, it was titled: “Hammock driven development”, talking about an alternate approach to software...

AI sandwich as a defacto principle for anything agentic engineering related 2 minutes read — 18 Apr 2026

The AI sandwich technique outlines a process where certain phases of product development are led by AI agents, while others require human intervention. The phases led by AI agents include planning, coding, reviewing, testing, and creating pull requests (PR). These tasks are automated to enhance efficiency and consistency. In contrast, the phases that should be human-led are brainstorming...

How I write essays in 2026 7 minutes read — 11 Apr 2026

I’ve updated my writing process and workflow for 2026, and the main reason I am revisiting it is because the process itself has started to change in a meaningful way. Writing is no longer just about producing an essay. It has become a feedback loop where each draft I produce also acts as training data. I’ve naturally been interested in the gap between what AI generates and how I would naturally...

Hegelian dialectic for structured reasoning with AI agents 13 minutes read — 06 Apr 2026

You have an interesting thought in your head, and you want to get it out there, open, out in the internet. It's spiky, and has all the right characteristics for titillating the audience, hoping to convince the reader of an opinion. When you're in the heat of the moment, and having this word-burst moment, you ask yourself to think twice before you hit publish, and now that you think about, it does...

How I started building softwares with AI agents being non technical 16 minutes read — 03 Jan 2026

At the start of the year, the CEO of Anthropic had made a prediction that 90% of code in enterprises would be written by AI by September. Now that we have crossed September, we now know that the prediction turned out to be false. As Ethan Mollick mentions, he only seems to have been off by a couple of months (this was recently posted by Boris, the creator of Claude Code) where he mentions 100% of...