Blog Posts

Cultivating Intentional Agent Networks

Cultivating Intentional Agent Networks

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 06 Mar, 2026

This project started with a missing tool. Our team used to rely heavily on Codegen, a platform that connected our workflows across GitHub, Slack, Linear, and our codebase. It wasn’t just an AI coding

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The Top Skill Engineers Should Be Developing Right Now

The Top Skill Engineers Should Be Developing Right Now

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 05 Mar, 2026

AI has dramatically changed how software gets written. Code generation is fast. Ideas can become implementations in minutes. Entire features can appear with a few prompts. But this speed introduces

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Essentialism, Reboots, and a Small Trick That Makes You Faster on Your Computer

Essentialism, Reboots, and a Small Trick That Makes You Faster on Your Computer

I recently listened to The Tim Ferriss Show episode #843, “Tactics and Strategies for a 2026 Reboot,” featuring Greg McKeown, the author of Essentialism. My biggest takeaway was simple but sticky: Fo

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How to Avoid AI Slop in Your Pull Requests

How to Avoid AI Slop in Your Pull Requests

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 19 Dec, 2025

Coding with AI is the new normal. Reviewing AI-written code is the new bottleneck. The problem isn’t necessarily that AI writes bad code. It’s that it often writes blurry code, code that technically

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Community First! Village Tiny Home Campaign — Year 2

Community First! Village Tiny Home Campaign — Year 2

We’re raising funds for our second tiny home build at Community First! Village. Every dollar you give will be matched 1:1 by our team, up to our campaign goal of $62,000.Quick link to campaign giv

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From Discovery to Delivery: An AI Forward Product Team

From Discovery to Delivery: An AI Forward Product Team

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 24 Aug, 2025

AI is changing how product teams work, from the way we discover opportunities to how we deliver features. The fastest teams today are AI forward: they use AI to validate ideas quickly, generate workin

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From Slack to Shipped - How I Build Features with AI Agents

From Slack to Shipped - How I Build Features with AI Agents

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 11 Aug, 2025

Modern AI tools are transforming how we write, review, and ship code — but the real magic happens when you connect them into a structured, repeatable workflow. In this post, I’ll walk through the

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Context Building: The Art of Layered AI Problem Solving

Context Building: The Art of Layered AI Problem Solving

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 25 Jul, 2025

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted development, a powerful methodology is emerging that goes far beyond simple prompt engineering. Context Building represents a systematic approach to pr

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🤖 My First Multi-Agent AI Coding Session: How an Hour of Agentic Magic Transformed My Workflow

🤖 My First Multi-Agent AI Coding Session: How an Hour of Agentic Magic Transformed My Workflow

  • Jake Ruesink
  • AI
  • 04 Jun, 2025

A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to test the bounds of agentic AI development workflows just as a fun exploration. I’d seen plenty of demos and played with a few basic examples, but this was my first r

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