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My Last Article Showed 83% of an Agent's Cost Is Re-Read Context. So I Built the Tool That Stops Re-Reading.

RoselineMCP: an MCP server in .NET, built on Roslyn, that gives AI agents a structured view of your C# code and cuts up to 85% of the context tokens re-read at every turn. With a reproducible benchmark to back it.

I Automated 100% of a Repo's Development with Claude Agents. I Burned Through My Weekly Limit in Under a Day.

I let a fleet of Claude agents develop the Koine repo autonomously: ~120 merges in 19 hours. Then I looked at the bill. 5.07 billion tokens, 96.5% of it cache read. Why context, not code, is the real scalability problem in autonomous development.

November 29, 2025

C# 14 Extension Blocks: Implementing the | Operator for Fluent Validation

C# 14 Extension Blocks (.NET 10) finally let you overload operators on any type. I use them to build PipeException: fluent, chainable argument validation that lets you pick which exception gets thrown.

November 11, 2025

Managing a Team of Developers Is a Bit Like Managing a Stock Portfolio

What if you looked at your dev team like an asset portfolio? Between the reliable bonds and the high-volatility stocks, a tech manager's real job is to diversify the talent.

November 6, 2025

Let's Stop Creating Interfaces Just in Case

In the .NET world, we abstract everything behind an interface by reflex. But a single-implementation interface created just in case is not an abstraction: it is complexity debt paid upfront.

[Web Culture] Is the Internet Overrun by Bots and AI?

The Dead Internet Theory claims most of the web is now produced by bots and AI. A conspiracy theory when taken literally, but grounded in very real trends: automated traffic, fake accounts, disguised ads, deepfakes. An overview, and what it means for digital professionals.

VibeCoding: How AI Revolutionized the Way I Develop

After 15 years of .NET, my development velocity was multiplied by 4. An honest field report on VibeCoding: what AI actually speeds up, what it does not do, and why C#'s strong typing changes the game.

Leveling Up Your Blazor Apps with E2E Testing

A demo project pairing Blazor, Reqnroll (formerly SpecFlow) and Playwright .NET: Gherkin scenarios bound to real browser tests, the Page Object pattern, and why automated E2E testing is no longer optional.

January 10, 2025

[Prompt Engineering & AI] How to Boost Your Architecture Refactoring with Claude Code

Learn how to use Claude Code and prompt engineering to effectively manage your software architecture refactoring through an AI-generated user story tracking system.

November 25, 2024

Understanding Value Equality in .NET Records

C# records give you value equality for free, until a collection joins the comparison. Why List<T> breaks equality, and how a ValueCollection<T> restores it.

November 8, 2024

Monads in C#: A Rigorous Exploration with Practical Examples

The word monad evokes Haskell, but the abstraction applies just as well in C#. A monad-like implementation that transforms a value while accumulating its logs, and what it teaches about wrap, bind and side effects.

October 25, 2024

JetBrains Rider: The Best IDE for .NET Is Now Free

Rider is now fully free for non-commercial projects. After 7 years of daily use, why that barrier coming down matters, and what it says about the real competition between IDEs.

October 21, 2024

Antlr4 Library Template: Bootstrapping Antlr4 Projects in C#

A .NET template published on NuGet to kickstart an Antlr4 project in C#, with a sample CSV grammar, the visitor pattern and .NET 8 support. Installation, usage and Rider / Visual Studio integration.

Between Perfect Engineering and Business Needs: Finding the Middle Ground

Engineers want robust, scalable, maintainable. The business wants fast and profitable. The problems that tension creates, and concrete strategies to arbitrate it without sacrificing either quality or time to market.

To Hell with AI Experts

AI attracts its share of self-proclaimed experts whose groundless claims erode public trust. Why disinformation has very concrete consequences, and how to tell genuine expertise from the surrounding noise.

February 27, 2024

The Illusion of Project Management

You do not manage a project, you manage people. Why traditional project management, Gantt charts first, rests on an illusion of control, and what human-centred management actually changes.