I'm working on an educational app for #amateurradio. In it I have visualizations for different factors that affect radio signal propogation.

My AI agents hit a quality plateau. Prompt tweaks weren't helping.

The problem? My agent was anchored to MY understanding of the domain, reflecting my blind spots back at me. 🤦‍♂️

Here's how I got through it:
https://philjohnstonii.com/blog/fresh-eyes-how-i-got-past-my-agents-quality-ceiling

#AI #AgenticCoding #LLM #DevEx #nvis #hamradio #hf #pota

AI tools are not “bad”.
But they often give bad results.

Why? Because they don’t understand your codebase.
And your prompts are missing context.

This is the real gap most Java developers hit right now.

I break it down here:
https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/java-developers-ai-tools-bad-results-context-prompting

#Java #AI #Quarkus #DevEx #LLM #SoftwareEngineering

Rails logs in development: beautiful stack traces, everything in your terminal, life is good.

Rails logs in production three weeks later: zgrep through 30 compressed files and pray.

I wrote about why this happens and how to fix it.

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/03/31/rails-logs-a-blessing-in-development-a-headache-in-production/

#Rails #RubyOnRails #Ruby #Logging #DevEx #WebDev

#DeveloperProductivity isn’t just about faster builds or better tools - it’s about creating an environment where developers can do their best work.

In this #InfoQ video, Nicole Forsgren shares a practical blueprint to:
• Identify & remove the hidden friction slowing your team down
• Uncover obstacles
• Win stakeholder buy-in
• Scale DevEx improvements across your organization

🎬 Watch now | 📄 #transcript included: https://bit.ly/4tivSAP

#DevEx #BestPractices #Agile

Running 5+ Claude Code instances in tmux and constantly switching windows to check which one needs attention? 😩

Built a tiny Claude Code plugin that adds a pixel-art overlay right in tmux ✨, tells me which window needs me, and lets me jump there with Enter.

📺 Article & Repo: https://konstantin-denerz.com/cc-notifynub-a-pixel-art-companion-for-claude-code-in-tmux/

#ClaudeCode #tmux #DevEx #CLI #PixelArt #neovim #dev #web #genai #devtools

Next Monday at WebDay I'm talking about the invisible forces that decide how your frontend works.

Spoiler: it's not really about the frontend.

It's about the undocumented constraints that quietly shape every architectural decision, whether you work in JS, infra, or anywhere in between.

#WebDay #SoftwareArchitecture #DevEx

You can have green DORA metrics and still have miserable developers.

Speed ≠ Joy.

To get real IDP adoption, we need to treat platforms like products. APIs aren't enough.

Read my new article for Platform Engineering here: https://platformengineering.org/blog/the-empathy-gap-why-your-platform-needs-ux-not-just-apis

#DevEx #PlatformEngineering #devopspink

"We have a PHP SDK ready for you."

What the developer did: pointed his AI at the Vatly docs and vibe-coded the entire integration in one shot.

Didn't even check what the AI had done. It just worked.

Documentation > SDKs when AI can read your docs?

#devex #ai #buildinpublic