Archive - cgardens

AI-Managed Infrastructure

Because Terraform was never meant for humans

May 13 • charles

April 2026

CI in Agentic Times

Because agents actually follow up on clean up work

Apr 29 • charles

AI is a new substrate for Algorithms

Because we all wanted a new edition of Cracking the Coding Interview

Apr 28 • charles

Self-Healing DX Pipelines

Because we can afford to measure new things if our metrics pipelines maintain themselves

Apr 27 • charles

Inverting the Developer and AI Relationship

Because there are more tokens than human-hours in the day

Apr 20 • charles

January 2026

Of Course This Blog is Written by AI

Because “never published” to “done in 15 minutes” is an infinity percent improvement

Jan 24 • charles

Building a High Velocity Engineering Culture

Because speed improves every other metric

Jan 23 • charles

What the AI Debate Gets Wrong About Progress

Because transition costs are asymmetric

Jan 22 • charles

Moving Beyond Execution-Based Engineering Scaling

Because AI types faster than you and doesn’t need a lunch break

Jan 21 • charles

RTO: From Religion to Systems Design

Because holy wars make bad operating principles

Jan 15 • charles

December 2025

Unlocking Ephemeral Testing with Generative AI: Part Two

Because zero marginal cost reshapes what tests are even for

Dec 4, 2025 • charles

The Fleeting Life of an LLM

Because someone had to anthropomorphize them

Dec 2, 2025 • charles

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