Knowledge Base

Essays on MCP, AI-assisted engineering, and building software that lasts — including posts from the Impl newsletter.

Slop Amplifies
AI & Engineering
5 min read
Slop Amplifies
AI-generated specs can look complete while quietly hiding the business rules that only exist in people's heads — and shipping on top of that gap compounds it.
AI
Specs
Product
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Your Docs Lie.
Documentation
4 min read
Your Docs Lie.
Outdated documentation doesn't just mislead people anymore — fed into an AI agent, it becomes confidently wrong instructions at machine speed.
Documentation
AI Agents
Maintenance
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"We don't have tech debt."
Engineering Culture
6 min read
"We don't have tech debt."
Tech debt isn't just old dependencies. Architecture debt, knowledge debt, and decision debt quietly cost teams more than the obvious kind.
Technical Debt
Engineering Culture
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I was wrong about AI assisted coding...
AI & Engineering
5 min read
I was wrong about AI assisted coding...
Context alone doesn't make AI-assisted development work. Strong engineering culture — reviews, standards, ownership — matters more than the tools.
AI
Engineering Culture
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SaaS is dead.
Product
4 min read
SaaS is dead.
AI didn't kill SaaS — it's squeezing the weak, single-feature tools while mature platforms with real ecosystems keep compounding their advantage.
SaaS
Product Strategy
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Lead Children (Ołowiane dzieci) and the digital poison of attention
Culture
6 min read
Lead Children (Ołowiane dzieci) and the digital poison of attention
A look at attention engineering through the lens of industrial-era toxicity — and why pretending algorithmic manipulation of focus 'isn't our business' doesn't hold up.
Attention
Ethics
Technology
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Does AI Understand Your Codebase?
AI & Engineering
5 min read
Does AI Understand Your Codebase?
Indexing a repo isn't the same as understanding it. Generate diagrams and maps with AI before trusting it to modify code, not after.
AI
Codebase
Architecture
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You Become a Hostage of Your Vibe-Coded Project
Engineering Culture
5 min read
You Become a Hostage of Your Vibe-Coded Project
Shipping fast with AI and no process doesn't just create debt — it traps you as the only person who can maintain what got built.
Vibe Coding
AI
Maintainability
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A new kind of technical debt we're not talking about
Engineering Culture
5 min read
A new kind of technical debt we're not talking about
Coding agents introduce a form of technical debt teams aren't tracking yet — and it doesn't show up in the usual places.
Technical Debt
AI Agents
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Product
4 min read
80% "done"
The last 20% of an AI-assisted feature is where most launches quietly fall apart. Don't crash before you launch.
Shipping
AI
Product
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Engineering Culture
6 min read
Your dev "productivity" metrics are broken (and here's the proof)
Standard measures of developer productivity don't hold up under scrutiny — and leaning on them harder just optimizes for the wrong thing.
Productivity
Metrics
Engineering Culture
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AI & Engineering
4 min read
Underrated AI coding workflow
Stop coding, start building: a workflow for using AI tools that treats them as part of a building process, not a typing shortcut.
AI
Workflow
Coding
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Technology
7 min read
What MCP Actually Is: A Developer's Perspective
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is fundamentally a communication standard that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with external systems in real-time.
MCP
Ecosystem
AI integrations
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