Developer Experience in the AI Era — Helping Engineers Stay Competitive

While teaching a Claude workshop, an engineer in the room asked me: how do you think about improving Developer Experience (DevEx) in the AI era? I answered on the spot. This post revisits that as a fully remote CTO. What DevEx used to mean, what AI changed, how leadership provides the environment. The goal: growing engineers who stay competitive in the market, the kind people call excellent even after they move on.

Cutting CI Costs in AI-Driven Solo Development with gh-signoff — Local CI and the Signoff Model

Hand implementation to a coding agent and your push count explodes, quietly inflating the remote CI bill. gh-signoff offers a blunt but sensible answer: run the tests on your own machine and sign off on them yourself.

Hand It an Issue, Get Back a PR — A Hermes Agent Skill Looping Between Codex and Claude Code

When agents write the code, the highest-value human work is neither writing nor reviewing it. It is building the foundation the loop runs on, and planning the issue. Shipping this skill made that conclusion concrete.

Reviewing a PR with Claude Code and Codex at Once — Automating Multi-Model Review as a Hermes Agent Skill

A code review from a single model inherits that model's blind spots wholesale. So have independent models read the same diff, and trust the findings where they overlap. Here is how that workflow became a single command.

Tabs or Spaces: Considering Indentation from an Accessibility Perspective

An issue attempting to change indentation to spaces led me to reconsider the importance of tabs from an accessibility perspective.