Everything I've written on The Davenporter, newest first. Most posts start with a question someone asked me, then work through what I've tried, what broke, and what I'd do next. The WIBTM series covers what I'm building right now, and why.
Why git and AST’s have some relationship, and what’s next when it comes to systems that are agent-first. If you’ve run many agents together on a single repo, you quickly realize that the volume of agentic code can break git.
Unpacking how we teach non-determinism in a 30 second attention span economy.
Telemetry and observability give you the means to start capturing data that make your agent systems long running, and improve their capabilities over time.
AI innovation is messy when you're trying to ship. Here are some practical things I've found to integrate AI into your software development lifecycle, from your first customer to your thousandth.
Vibe coding and pure prototypes are creating cognitive overload. Here is how enterprise engineering teams must restructure for long-term AI success.
Moving beyond clean git commits to knowledge systems for agentic development.
Extending smartrouter to support calling local AI models that are a part of a pool of workers, learnings and tribulations, and things I'm planning to do next
A little router I'm building and improving to use different Gemini (and soon other) models.
Explorations about successful learning patterns for AI and how I'm using it currently
AI requires you to create another moat of advantage. Here are my thoughts about how to do it.
cosm locks functions instead of files so several agents can edit the same codebase at once.
| Theme | Essay | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Why your coding agent needs a blast-radius tool | WIBTM: What happens when you let an agent design a new git system? | davenportjw/cosm |
| How I built a self-improving coding system | Give an agent access to memories... | davenportjw/agentic-memory |
| The warehouse and hybrid model routing | WIBTD/M/L: Routing AI responses between local and cloud models | davenportjw/smartrouter & warehouse-dash |