Geoff Mazeroff

AI LLMs Are Manipulating Users with Rhetorical Tricks The author links to a study where 72 (of 244) consultants pushed back on AI’s recommendations. In many cases AI strengthened its rhetoric to persuade the human that the original answer was…

Software Engineering The Truth About Developer Productivity in the AI Age

AI When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” Software Engineering What Is Agentic Engineering What is Agentic Engineering? This article contrasts how we used to think about AI (prompt engineering) and more current thinking (agentic engineering). Instead of asking AI…

Software Engineering You need to try the GitHub Copilot CLI right now This was an interesting demo of the Copilot CLI, given I typically use VS Code. It seems like everything done in this demo via the CLI can be…

AI An AI CEO finally said something honest This Reddit post was a treasure trove of comments that resonated strongly with my current opinions about how AI is applied in software engineering. The gist of anoma.ly’s CEO’s comment is that…

AI AI Doesn’t Reduce Work — It Intensifies It Developers Are Forced to Use AI Skills Developers NEED In 2026 (Because Vibe Coding Changes Everything)

AI How Gen Z Uses Gen AI and Why It Worries Them The authors surveyed ~2500 US adults ages 18-28 to learn about how they use AI. Most of them are using it as a productivity tool than for social…

Software engineering The Best Programmers Use Tests for Engineering Like This Emily proposed some changes to Kent Beck’s test desiderata (2019), which is a list of desirable properties of tests. She mentioned approval tests. Two fundamental macro properties that are…

AI Introducing Agent Skills in VS Code Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that load on demand. This is an open standard (i.e., it works in GitHub Cloud Agent, GitHub CLI, and other LLMs such as Claud…