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AI Mandates
AI mandates make honest feedback professionally dangerous, putting successful adoption at risk. What engineering leaders owe their teams when mandates…
Apr 7
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Alex Robinson
March 2026
Total Cost of Ownership
Planning for the Real Cost of AI in Engineering
Mar 31
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Alex Robinson
Treat Skills as Code
Agent skills are the most portable tool in agentic engineering. Time to give them the quality discipline they deserve.
Mar 17
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Alex Robinson
2
Context Engineering for AI-Assistant Development
AI coding tools have a context problem.
Mar 8
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Alex Robinson
February 2026
Signal Check: February 20, 2026
This week's signal in AI and engineering
Feb 20
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Alex Robinson
AI-Assisted Reviews with GitHub Copilot
In my last article, I argued that engineering teams should fix the review process before scaling code generation.
Feb 17
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Alex Robinson
Signal Check: February 13, 2026
This week's signal in AI and engineering
Feb 13
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Alex Robinson
AI-assisted Code Reviews
Improve the Review Bottleneck Before Scaling Code Generation
Feb 10
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Alex Robinson
1
The Critical Thinking Paradox
AI coding assistants demand strong critical thinking skills while systematically undermining the development of these same skills. Adopt research-backed…
Feb 2
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Alex Robinson
3
January 2026
MCPs, Agents, Skills. Oh My!
Understanding the emerging ecosystem of LLM building blocks
Jan 27
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Alex Robinson
2
Avoiding the AI Complexity Cliff
Managing scope in AI-assisted development
Jan 20
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Alex Robinson
2
AI Reality Check
The Forces Challenging the Future of AI
Jan 13
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Alex Robinson
3
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