What does a reproducible local LLM environment for Terraform work look like when it is designed not to become an accidental deployment system? For this series, it is a version-pinned local runtime...

Can a local model help with Terraform and platform-engineering work without turning an experiment into an unsafe infrastructure deployment path? That is the question for this series. It is not an ...

🤖 AI co-author: GitHub Copilot An idea used to need a fair amount of ceremony before it became software. Someone needed enough uninterrupted time to make a start. A team needed enough shared cont...

🤖 AI co-author: GitHub Copilot Google’s recent article, Why Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering, makes a useful argument: as agents produce more code, our bottleneck move...

There is a slightly strange gap in the current agentic-coding conversation. We are getting very good at talking about prompts, models, context windows, skills, MCP servers, and whether an agent sh...

I saw a photo of an SF billboard with what looked like a broken URL: https:// {64659, 123310, 75584, 8138, 38271} It led to Listen Labs’ Berghain Challenge, where you act as a nightclub bouncer an...

I have written before about publishing my own collection of agent skills through npm. At the time, the appealing bit was the small command: npx skills install @abuxton/skills Put a useful SKILL....

I owe you an apology for the quiet August. I have not posted much because personal life took priority: I got married. It was a very good reason to step away, but it is still nice to be writing agai...

Birgitta Böckeler at Thoughtworks spent four weeks running AI coding models locally on Apple Silicon and wrote up what she learned in two detailed memos: factors affecting viability and practical e...

I thought it interesting to take a look at Microsoft’s Waza and compare it to whatever else exists for evaluating AI agents and skills. That request landed at a good moment. I have been quietly bui...