AI on both sides of a PHP bug
A bug found with AI made universities and government agencies switch their websites off. AI also helped me check and patch my own sites: it prepared, I approved.
A good programmer looks both ways
Setting up the Hermes agent on a new Mac mini with Claude Code, one agent could read another agent's files. Isolating them was my job as an engineer, not the agent's.
Specifications are dead
This week I built a working ERP prototype in about an hour instead of writing a specification. When a prototype costs an hour, nobody defends it.
Build or buy: the old rule is breaking
Vendors put AI into every seat and raise the price. With AI, a manager can build the prototype and a software team can finish it. The process should define the software, not the other way round.
One or two agents at a time
I ran ten AI agents in parallel and was exhausted by Monday evening. Now I run one or two and switch context while they work. A marathon, not a sprint.
I use AI agents every day. Not for code
Meetings, Google Sheets and company data: what AI agents do for me every day. The agent prepares, I judge.
Did the coding agent leave itself a way back in?
Five predictions on AI security: self-hosted models, a bigger role for security assurance engineers, and why the generating agent should not approve its own changes.
AI in your business: cost center or profit center?
Where you put AI decides what you get back from it. Five slides on the two positions and what each one measures.
The cost of a feature, calculated in tokens
Microsoft put engineers on token budgets. The bigger story: for the first time in software, the cost side of a feature is metered like electricity.
The EU just made AI introduce itself
Article 50 of the EU AI Act in force. Why I think disclosure is the right move, and why the scope covers more companies than most people assume.
The Programmer Is Evolving: From Writing Code to Shaping It
Coding is getting cheaper. Knowing what to build is not. The programmer as sculptor, and as manager of AI.
Questions or comments: write to me at dmytro@durach.ai or on LinkedIn.