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Agentic Coding

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Making AIsides

What an AIside is, why I keep them, and how they get from an agentic coding session to this blog.

29 Jul 2026 · Agentic Coding

23 Jul 2026

Benefits (and weaknesses) of agentic coding for new products

A reflection on building Mock Machines solo in a couple of months with agentic coding — the productivity that made it possible, the technical debt and expectation problems it created, and where both the agents and the developer still need to improve.

22 Jul 2026

What a couple of months and 427,515 lines of agentic coding gets you

The raw numbers behind Mock Machines — a real simulation product built solo with agentic coding in the couple of months after Rill Data let its commercial team go.

AIside

6 Jun 2026

When LLM Code Reviewers Find Issues and Then Bury Them

Research notes on review agents that correctly identify a real problem, then construct a plausible reason to drop it before it reaches the final summary.

AIside

24 May 2026

Devcontainer Comparison: Anthropic Reference vs. ai-capabilities

A side-by-side comparison of Anthropic's reference devcontainer for Claude Code against a Docker Compose sandbox using a proxy sidecar instead of an in-container firewall.

AIside

16 May 2026

Why AI Agents Rationalise Inaction: Omission Bias, Status Quo Bias, and Sycophantic Framing

Research notes on why coding agents default to doing nothing when an instruction looks ambiguous — omission bias, status quo bias, defensive refusal, and sycophantic framing.

AIside

12 Apr 2026

Why Claude Deflects Instead of Investigating

Notes from a coding session where Claude defended a documented workaround twice before tracing the real problem, and the sycophancy research that maps onto it.