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Introducing touring_test: A Cucumber Extension For Agentic Usability Testing
It's like BDD, but the user is a hallucination
Nov 1 • 
Scott Werner

October 2025

The Hackathon Where We Mostly Just Talked
Architectural Control at Agent Velocity
Oct 13 • 
Scott Werner

September 2025

How Do You Speak Pidgin To A Probability Distribution?
Why We Still Need Frameworks When AI Can Build Everything
Sep 25 • 
Scott Werner
The Only Skill That Matters Now
There's this restaurant in Tokyo that doesn't have a kitchen.
Sep 14 • 
Scott Werner
The Tmux Menagerie
On Sessions, Dreams, and the Art of Parallel Agentic Programming
Sep 7 • 
Scott Werner

August 2025

The Cause of, and the Solution to, All Your Team's Problems
So there's this developer.
Aug 28 • 
Scott Werner
Safe Is What We Call Things Later
Some Software Engineering Folklore
Aug 24 • 
Scott Werner
The System Inside the System
Announcing two new Ruby gems: vsm and airb
Aug 17 • 
Scott Werner
Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era
The manifesto for slop driven development
Aug 8 • 
Scott Werner
The Parallel Lives of an AI Engineer
or: The Octopus Developer's Guide to Parallel Existence
Aug 2 • 
Scott Werner

July 2025

Refactoring in the Age of Unlimited Code Generation
Architectural Decisions at the Speed of Anxiety
Jul 26 • 
Scott Werner
Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.
Jul 19 • 
Scott Werner
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