Because Developers are Awesome

Introduction to Cloudflare AI Gateway

April 29, 2026 6 minute read

Today, I am continuing my deep-dive into every aspect of the Cloudflare Developer Platform by getting to grips with the AI inference capabilities of the platform. To do this, I’ve written a small AI Chat app that you can quickly deploy to your own Cloudflare dashboard if you like. Let’s take a look at some of the learnings today. My intent with todays investigation was to make an app that looks like one of the many public AI chat systems. I think that Google Gemini looks “the best” of t...

Introduction to Cloudflare Workers

April 26, 2026 11 minute read

I’ve recently started working on bringing myself up to speed on the Cloudflare Dev Platform, which is a serverless development platform that runs your applications at the edge (and Cloudflare has more than 300 points of presence, so the edge is fairly spread out). This is the first in a series that will go through all the major features of the Cloudflare Dev Platform, but attempt to make some sense out of what each feature is best at and what works well together. Let’s say you are using C...

Tools for troubleshooting DNS

April 21, 2026 9 minute read

One of the best things about joining a new company is that you get to go to a series of training for that company. For Cloudflare, I get a technical bootcamp focused on Internet technologies. I learned Internet technologies a long time ago, so it’s a chance to catch up and immerse myself in the improvements that have happened along the way. My role recently has focused on developers (and it still does), but that doesn’t mean you should be oblivious to standard trouble shooting. Take DNS...

Setting up a project for Agentic AI

April 19, 2026 13 minute read

In my last three articles, I produced a set of recipes and rules for doing AI-first development using Spec-Driven Design. These rules really get you started in how to think about development when the coding (the easy part) is done for you. But how do you get started? When I am setting up a new project, my process has now changed. It starts off the same, but the additional files I need to write before I can start coding have changed. Here is what I do: 1. Scaffolding Inevitably, I hav...

Effective prompts for agentic engineering

April 11, 2026 10 minute read

This is the third and final part of my series on agentic engineering. If you want to read the first two articles, see the following links: Ten rules for spec-driven design Using Jobs-to-be-done to improve your agentic spec In the previous article, I covered the spec, which documents the “what” and the “why” of what you want to build using JTBD as a primary product requirements framework to use. This is recommeneded because the alternatives rely on a conversation between a product ma...

Using Jobs-to-be-done to improve your agentic spec

April 09, 2026 6 minute read

In my last article, I introduced ten rules to help you move from vibe-coder to AI Product Architect by building specs. However, I glossed over a few of the details. The basic problem is that most people write specs for themselves - a human. You aren’t writing for a human, so why do you think it would look the same? In this article, I’m going in depth into using product management techniques to write a spec that agents love. Rule 1 (refined) is “Don’t just tell the agent what to build; t...

Ten rules for spec-driven design

April 07, 2026 6 minute read

Recently, I posted an article on the AI Maturity Model. In that article, I proposed six stages of growth - from tactician or accidental editor to the agentic engineer. The biggest difference between the vibe coder and the agentic engineer is the transition to spec-driven design. But what does that really mean? The “vibe-coder” sends one massive prompt and hopes for a miracle. The agentic engineer understands that an LLM is a reasoning engine, not a magician. Spec-driven design provides ...

Are we in an AI bubble or an AI revolution?

April 05, 2026 3 minute read

I read a lot on the Internet from the prognosticators about whether AI is terrible or awesome - are we in a bubble or a revolution in the way we work? Why not both? Perhaps the best way to explain this is by - as everyone else is - drawing parallels to the other bubble / revolution that we all experienced - the dot-com crash of 2000. The year 2000 represents the moment where the financial excitement (the bubble) outpaced the actual infrastructure (the revolution). The Bubble: Financial ...

The AI Maturity Model

April 03, 2026 7 minute read

I have a confession to make. I don’t write code any more, and I haven’t written any code since August of last year. I wrote a little about my journey to AI nirvana (see my posts on AI Editors, OSS AI Editors, or SpecKit). I’m guessing that everyone goes through the same journey - from distrusting that AI will do a good job to using AI for everything. The good news is that software development has not really changed. The job was never about the code, even though the code was the tangible ...

Using SpecKit with multiple AI agents

December 06, 2025 8 minute read

I wanted to put down my workflow and all the details for using SpecKit using a superior reasoning and planning LLM (like Opus 4.5 via Claude Code, or Gemini 3 via the Gemini CLI) for the initial phases, but switching to an agentic AI IDE like Cursor or GitHub Copilot in VS Code for the final coding phases. I’m using Git and the GitHub CLI for repository actions. This workflow does not include “authenticating”. You still need to configure and log in to each tool separately. They’ll general...

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