Your MCP Servers Are Burning Your Agent's Context Window
Tool definitions load into context before an agent does anything. Code execution and progressive disclosure are how teams are getting that budget back.
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AI
Agentic coding, review practices, and how AI is reshaping the day-to-day of building software.
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AI Is Forking the Engineering Manager Role Into Two Jobs
Middle management is flattening industry-wide. What survives of engineering management is splitting into two tracks that need almost opposite skills.
7 min readSpec-Driven Development: Why the Spec Is Becoming the New Code Review
Prompts drift. A versioned spec is how teams are catching it before it ships.
7 min readWhy AI Coding Agents Need WIP Limits Too
A framework for deciding how many agents one engineer can actually run at once.
6 min readHow to Orchestrate Multiple AI Coding Agents Without Losing Architectural Control
A framework for staff engineers directing several agents at once, not just reviewing what one of them wrote.
5 min readHow to Review AI-Generated Code Without Becoming a Bottleneck
A framework for staff engineers reviewing pull requests an agent wrote.
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