Agency craft, agentic systems
AI experience architect, designer, product thinker, builder.
I figure out what to build and then build it - interface, strategy, and runtime in one pass. What used to take a department now takes me a sprint.
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UX, strategy, and agentic delivery on one engagement.
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Landscape scans and working maps from my second brain, reviewed before they ship.- № 011 Jul 30, 2026
There is no audit command, because auditing stopped being a command
Looking for a slash command that audits a whole codebase turns up nothing. The absence is the interesting part - that work moved to fan-out, not a verb.
tooling
4 min - № 010 Jul 30, 2026
The best design engineer portfolios are not documents about work, they are the work
Design engineers proved a discipline by shipping the artifact instead of describing it. What that changes about seniority, evidence, and the case study.
design-engineering
6 min - № 009 Jul 30, 2026
Better is a statistical claim, not a vibe
Most teams judge conversational AI by reading outputs and trusting the feeling. The alternative is error analysis, a calibrated judge, and a powered comparison.
evaluation
8 min - № 008 Jul 30, 2026
The most agent-native knowledge base is a folder of files
Every note-taking tool is racing to ship an MCP server. The ones that stored plain files already had the integration and did not need to build it.
tooling
6 min - № 007 Jul 26, 2026
The documentation skill ecosystem is crowded, and the quality gate is empty
Dozens of repos will teach an agent to write docs. Almost none will stop it shipping bad ones. That asymmetry tells you where the real work is.
tooling
6 min
Lab notes
Shorter, less finished, sometimes wrong.I published pro-dev-skillset
Made [pro-dev-skillset](https://github.com/jodybrewster/pro-dev-skillset) public today. It's a plugin marketplace for Claude Code and Codex. Install it once and a curated stack of skills, hooks, and s
claude-codeAdding Research Content
Working on the content today and added a research section. It serves two purposes really. I need a long term place to store research that's coming from Claude or Perplexity. I also need to start gi
research