Joe Prisk
Engineer who specialises in building thoughtful, scalable digital products that turn complex problems into simple, human-centred solutions.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- Design Systems
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Build vs buy: AI code review for teams that have opinions
There’s a good chance that somewhere in your org, someone is trialling an AI code review tool right now, and at the same time someone else is pasting agent output into PRs under their own name.
·6 min readarticle
What engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost
AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...
·4 min readarticle
Why your design system is the most important input to Claude Code
Design systems are critical inputs for AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code because they constrain the AI’s micro-decisions around colours, spacing, and components – preventing "drift at speed" and ensuring generated UI remains consistent with your product’s visual language.
·5 min read
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