THE JOB CHANGED

Something fundamental changed about writing software. The bottleneck moved from typing code to directing it: specifying intent, managing context, reviewing output, and knowing when to trust the machine and when not to. Most of what is written about this is either hype or doom. Neither survives contact with a real codebase.

The name is the thesis, three ways. It is the paradigm shift underway in how software gets built. It is the context switching developers have always treated as the enemy — now the core of the job, as you direct work across agents and projects. And it is the context window itself: the scarce resource you learn to engineer when your collaborator is an LLM.

Every claim gets tested against real projects — the ones on this site. Experiment write-ups with receipts. Workflow breakdowns you can copy. Hands-on evals of models and tools as they ship. Essays on where the practice is heading, grounded in what I have actually built. What worked ships; what failed gets a write-up too.

AI is the how. These are the whats — the projects and stacks every claim gets tested against.