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After failing a number of times to implement worktrees, I got over my frustration and made it happen.

The pace of AI improvement has meant the way I build software looks very different to how I did six months ago, and again six months before that.

Earlier this year I spoke to the idea of Agent Orchestration where changes to software span multiple context windows, and work needs to be split and passed to agents while monitoring progress deterministically

Once your agentic code-assist workflow is consistently producing acceptable code the bottleneck to productivity becomes the speed at which you can produce this code.

In this post I'll describe an improved method to guide the output of code-assist tools towards more maintainable code.

This is the fourth post in a series about steering AI code assist (code-assist) towards producing maintainable code.

The way I deliver software is grounded in a belief that quality matters and is the route to less suffering.

So the agent and I determined what it needed to do and it built a plan and the plan was split into multiple steps with the intention of progressing one step at a time with the reasoning being I want to use as little of the context window as possible for e…

2025 was the year of agentic AI code assistants and programming will never be the same.

This is the third post in a series about steering AI code assist (code-assist) towards producing maintainable code.

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