Alex Gabites
Software engineer who cares about the front-end, user experience, and the systems underneath. Team and process advocate.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- Design Systems,
- Product Design & Engineering
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Are your AI agents making progress or producing work?
We shipped a working MVP for the Tech Council of Australia in two weeks using an agentic development workflow. Along the way, we learned how easily agents can produce convincing work without moving a product forward, and why engineers still need to decide what progress looks like.
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·9 min readFrom Vibes to Durable Context
AI can speed up implementation, but it does not remove the need for good engineering. This article looks at how planning, human judgment, useful documentation, and a well-structured codebase can help coding agents make better decisions with less guesswork.
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