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A Good Agent Skill Is a Contract, Not a Prompt

May 2 · 7 min read · When people start using AI coding agents seriously, they usually make the same mistake: every time the agent does something wrong, they add another instruction. One more rule, one more exception, one

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Stop Writing Bigger Prompts. Start Designing Agent Skills.

Apr 11 · 6 min read · When an AI coding agent does something wrong, the natural reaction is to add more instructions. Another rule. Another example. Another edge case paragraph. The prompt grows from a few hundred tokens t

Small Pull Requests Win Every Time

Mar 8 · 4 min read · One of the simplest engineering habits that dramatically improves team productivity is to Keep the pull requests small. It sounds obvious. Yet in many teams, pull (merge) requests regularly contain

Allocation Rate in Go and Java

Feb 8 · 3 min read · Garbage Collection discussions often drift into theory: algorithms, generations, colors, phases. In practise , most real GC problems come from one simple thing: Allocation rate is too high Today we’re going to discuss how high allocation rate affec...

HTTP Server in Go vs Java: The Stuff That Actually Hurts in Production

Jan 18 · 5 min read · Building an HTTP server is easy. Building one that survives real traffic, slow dependencies, deploys, and partial failures is where Go and Java start to diverge in interesting - and sometimes painful - ways. This article is not about frameworks, anno...