The Processing Layer Is Not a Moat
LLMs are the refinery. Everyone has access to the refinery now. The only question is: who owns the crude?
AI Development
Whispering to the Machine: Take Three
Five months after Take Two, the third snapshot. The agents work nights now, the world pushed its way into the workflow, and the most durable thing on my machine is the record.
Eliminating Waste in the SDLC
When AI can use the same tools you use — Jira, GitHub, Sentry, GCloud — everything about the software development lifecycle changes. Not because AI writes the code. Because it eliminates the waste around the code.
Whispering to the Machine: Take Two
Eight months after writing about AI-powered development, the landscape has changed so dramatically that the original piece reads like a dispatch from another era. Here's what the work actually looks like now.
The One-Person Engineering Team
The role of the software engineer is changing. What happens when one person with AI agents can cover the ground that used to require a full team?
Whispering to the Machine: A Snapshot of AI-Powered Development in 2025
What collaborating with AI in software development actually looked like in mid-2025 — the workflow, the lessons, and the mindset shift from writing code to orchestrating it.
From idea to IoT data: building an environmental monitor with Adafruit Clue and Python
Building a CircuitPython + Python environmental data logger on the Adafruit Clue — from BLE ambitions to a USB Serial pivot to a pywebview gateway with live charts. Originally posted on officeofadamthede.com.