I made my coding agents talk like an aircraft maintenance manual
Two weeks of agent replies in Simplified Technical English: shorter replies, list labels I can answer with, and the rules that still slip.
Notes on AI systems, developer tools, and the craft of building software.
I'm Daniel Dewhurst, a Lead AI Solutions Engineer. I build with AI, Laravel, and TypeScript for a living. This is where I write about what the tools change and where they fall short.
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Migrating to Claude Opus 5.5: a cheat sheet for the API and Claude Code
Effort defaults, the four breaking changes, silent progress updates, and the prompt and CLAUDE.md lines worth changing when you move from Opus 5 to 5.5.
Story Skills: a continuity compiler for AI-written fiction
My open-source Agent Skills bundle gives coding agents a shared story bible format — and a deterministic CLI that catches dead characters walking, payoffs before setups, and unfired Chekhov guns.
Muse vs Grok Bot vs OpenClaw & Hermes: a practical personal-agent comparison
Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok Bot, and the open-source route (OpenClaw and Hermes Agent) are all fighting to be your always-on AI assistant. They disagree on who does the setup, whose model you get, and where your data lives.
Your CLAUDE.md is context, not configuration
Trimming your instruction file won't stop agents ignoring the rules. Compliance decays as the work proceeds, and only mechanical gates survive it.
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 5: an early coding comparison
GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3, and Claude Opus 5 trade coding wins. An early comparison of capability, cost, availability, and agent workflows.