Claude Code is polite. Ask why a component re-renders and you get a paragraph that restates your question, explains the cause, suggests a fix and offers more help. In a terminal, at the end of a long
In 2024 the skill everyone talked about was prompting: find the right words and the model does the right thing. In 2025 it was context: hand the model the right files and docs, and the exact wording m
Sometimes the answer is not in a source repository. It is in a build: the Electron app that went out last month, an APK on a test phone, a native binary from an old release with no tag. Questions like
A few years ago the hard part of getting JSON from a language model was getting JSON at all. You asked nicely, you got a code fence with a trailing comma, and you wrote a regex to dig the object out.
Every LLM feature I have built started the same way: a prompt that worked on the three examples I had open. On the roof report extraction work, the examples I had open turned out to be the easy ones.
The most expensive sentence a coding agent writes is "Everything should work now." It is said with confidence, and sometimes it is even true. An agent's summary of its own work is the least reliable p
