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How I talk to coding agents - and why the syntax was never the job The code is the cheap part now.

How I work My job used to be doing the work.

Fourteen months ago, I published Agents Deserve Better than Retrofitted Frameworks.

I started Old School / New Tech because I was frustrated.

Last week I wrote about software that fixes itself.

My recent article on the law firm model exploded over the weekend, and the most common follow-up question was: "The Architect governs instead of codes.

A week ago, I wrote about why software agencies should restructure as law firms – with Architects running autonomous pods, earning revenue share, and using AI agents to deliver what used to take a team of five.

Why the future of dev agencies looks more like Kirkland & Ellis than a SaaS startup.

There's a growing chorus in the AI engineering world right now, and it goes something like this: "MCP is bloating our context windows.

The X algorithm was published on GitHub today, so, naturally, I had AI dig through the open-source "For You" feed code to find out what the system actually optimizes for.

Anthropic recently moved to block Max users from using their own paid Claude subscription with tools like OpenCode and other open-source software.

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I'm releasing "Production-Grade Agentic AI" chapter-by-chapter on LeanPub, starting today.

The AI industry has a dirty secret: we're building "intelligent agents" that can't actually think.

Back in 1997, I was running a little web development agency.

The way we build software is fundamentally changing.

If you've tried to build anything substantial with AI agents, you know the pain.

The venture capital trap Let's be honest: venture capital works when you're building a billion-dollar rocket company or curing cancer.

If you really want to understand where Apple is today, ignore the overproduced (and under-delivering) WWDC show.

I've been asked many times about how I come up with ideas, how I decide what's worth building, and what my "framework" is for getting started.

As AI development accelerates, we're witnessing a paradigm shift in how we build intelligent systems.

TL;DR: I'm starting a podcast.

Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking about what it would take to build a modern company that doesn’t rely on hiring dozens of people to grow.

Over the last few months, I've gone deep into AI agent development — building, experimenting, and shipping.

Life has a way of throwing obstacles in our path.

Everyone wants to get rich fast.

I was down with the flu over the weekend so while in bed I got pensive about the future of AI and software development and I came up with the following white paper.

5 Niche business ideas you can start with zero money (I'll be your first customer) Starting a business doesn't have to mean taking out a loan, hiring a team, or spending months building a product.

I recently came across a tweet that asked one simple question I couldn't stop thinking about...

Back in 2019, I introduced what I called “The World’s Best (and Laziest) Trading Strategy”.

Photo by Carl Heyerdahl on Unsplash Between running Automaze (a full-scale CTO-as-a-service and development agency) and managing day-to-day tasks, it can often feel like I have too many things on my plate.

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash For decades, websites have been designed for human users—carefully structured layouts, sleek user interfaces, and intuitive navigation.

If you’ve visited this site recently, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t written much here over the past four years.

People often overlook the powerful role luck plays in shaping their lives.

While most people agree that black lives matter (why shouldn't they?)

An introduction to the Trading revolution: How to deploy a trading strategy with Tradologics. !

The last few months got me busy like a bee...

In this post, I share my vision for an Open Trading standard for communicating with online brokers using modern technologies.

Can you regularly beat the market, cut volatility by 40% and max drawdown by 70% with only four trades a year, or is this too good to be true?

The recently updated yfinance added a lot more capabilities to this already popular library.

I released the first version of QTPyLib, my Python library for algo traders, in 2016.

Ever since Yahoo decommissioned their historical data API, Python developers looked for a reliable workaround.

I had a great time presenting yesterday's webinar about Live Trading with Python...

As algorithmic traders, we need a lot of data to test and optimize our strategy ideas.

The CBOE Volatility Index (Ticker: VIX) is a well known measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility implied by S&P 500 index options.

Bitcoin has seen a tremendous growth in both price an trading volume this year.

I had a great time presenting yesterday's webinar about Live Trading with Python...

On wednsday, I gave the second out of a four-part webinar series on Treading With Python for futures.io's members.

As you may have heard, Yahoo!

While working on a new dashboard for QTPyLib I needed to get a Matplotlib plot to refresh and update based on data coming from a ZeroMQ stream.