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Project structure, code patterns, and the effect of ecosystem stability on AI tools.

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Project structure, code patterns, and the effect of ecosystem stability on AI tools. Articles are listed in suggested reading order.

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March 6, 2026 18m read

How project structure, tooling, and practices evolve when AI agents are central to development

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March 27, 2026 26m read

Code patterns that maximize AI agent success—and the anti-patterns that confuse them

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July 13, 2026 13m read

A decade of semantic versioning stability means AI agents trained on 2020 code still produce working 2026 code

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Typed, supervised dataflow on the BEAM. Describe a system as a typed graph and check its connections before it runs.