Agents doing real engineering work

I'm Jason Davenport. I write about what happens when agents do real engineering work: source control, memory, telemetry, and the human side of AI. Here you'll find my essays, the code behind them, and a couple of games I built.

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100% of your developers should be building things to improve the workflow. Are they?

Developers need to fix the machine, not the execution output.

Oct 21, 2026 · 4 min read

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WIBTM: What happens when you let an agent design a new git system? Why git and AST’s have some relationship, and what’s next when it comes to systems that are agent-first.	Sep 24, 2026	5 min
The value of being bored in the AI and attention economy And how it can keep us in the high value areas of AI engineering.	Sep 16, 2026	3 min
What happens AI burns down the backlog? AI is still a business transformation problem, and its out-kicking the product coverage.	Sep 03, 2026	5 min

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Warehouse Dash

Drive an autonomous warehouse forklift across regional Cloud Run shards, manage #dash battery boosts, and race AI bot fleets in a live 10 Hz isometric logistics loop.

The forklift, a pallet, and the loading dock.

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cosm / topocosm

What happens when 10 coding agents edit the same repo at once? Test how symbol-level AST locks prevent merge collisions and cut context tokens by up to 78%.

78.4% fewer tokens in a sample run

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