Posts by Eli Weinstock-Herman

We all agree that 'context' is important for agentic coding, but 'context' is a broad term without much direction on how to reason about what context to include, or how to debug what's not working.

The availability of AI Agents that can easily and quickly write small, greenfield tools means my mental math has changed on when to grind through a task vs automating it, and opened up new opportunities.

An upgrade from .Net 4.5 to .Net 9 with AI assistance and the breakdown of what tasks AI excelled at, which ones it tanked, and public git commits and prompts for both.

Tips and examples code for an ASP.Net 6 project with multiple entry points, providing shared CSS for Razor pages and a better local development experience.

Perspective and tactics on making your team shine, after hearing feedback that not enough is getting done.

When designing business applications, the decision to use an off the shelf input library or build your own can have far-reaching impacts on everything from the architecture of your application to presenting the intended experience to users.

Providing clear expectations and feedback are part of our responsibilities as managers, impacting personal performance, morale, and organizational effectiveness.

Tooling for integration testing for ASP.Net has improved, but when our application relies on OIDC authentication against a third party it can be difficult to take advantage of new methods like WebApplicationFactory.

When we're small, it's not surprising for the head of Engineering to be involved or even own the product roadmap.

Second part of a series - Integrating terraform plan verification into a continuous delivery pipeline running in CircleCI to deliver ASP.Net updates to Azure App Services and Azure SQL Database.