Stories by Stwerner

The Discovery Phase Is All There Is

The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting

The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting

What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?

Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem

Touring_test: A Cucumber Extension for Agentic Usability Testing

The Hackathon Where We Mostly Just Talked

How Do You Speak Pidgin to a Probability Distribution?

The Only Skill That Matters Now

The Tmux Menagerie

The Cause Of, and the Solution To, All Your Team's Problems

Safe Is What We Call Things Later: Some Software Engineering Folklore

The System Inside the System

Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era

The Parallel Lives of an AI Engineer

Refactoring in the Age of Unlimited Code Generation

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

The Great Flood of Adequate Software

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System

The Moldy Cucumber Chronicles