Cranking out Good Code 
Hey, I'm Joseph
I've built software that tested Olympic athletes for doping and pipelines adopted by 1,000+ engineers at Salesforce. These days I'm deep in agentic systems — designing AI that actually ships work. I write about developer tooling, agents, and the craft of engineering at scale. More about me →
Recent Posts
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Fighting AI-Powered Fraud with AI-Powered Investigators
How typed tool orchestration, agentic reasoning, and human-in-the-loop design turn a manual fraud investigation process into a trustworthy, observable AI workflow.
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Building the Agentic Economy: My Second Brain Powered by OpenClaw
How I built a swarm of specialized AI agents that wake up at 6am, check my email, curate my news, and operate as a second brain — all running locally on plain text files.
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Stop Giving Your Agents a Task List
The best AI agents don't follow a checklist — they internalize your goals. Anthropic's model spec shows us what that looks like at scale.
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The token economy of software work: three roles that will matter next
Why software work is shifting toward orchestration, infrastructure, and domain translation—and what that means for careers and companies.