A Lazy Engineer https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/ Notes on compounding leverage: agentic dev harnesses, unattended coding workflows, and the self-teaching that keeps up with them. Staying current is a practice, not an event https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/staying-current-is-a-practice-not-an-event/ https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/staying-current-is-a-practice-not-an-event/ Learning a language or learning to code was a project with an end. Keeping up with agentic tooling isn't — it's the same self-teaching method, run continuously, with no finish line in sight. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The highest-leverage productivity change was a data plan https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/the-highest-leverage-productivity-change-was-a-data-plan/ https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/the-highest-leverage-productivity-change-was-a-data-plan/ I spent years trying to will myself into a consistent learning habit. The thing that actually worked wasn't willpower — it was upgrading a mobile data plan so commute time stopped being wasted time. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pick your posture before you pick your prompt https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/pick-your-posture-before-the-prompt/ https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/pick-your-posture-before-the-prompt/ Why an agentic harness needs an explicit operating mode — a fast autonomous posture and a slower high-ceremony one — instead of a single prompt trying to serve both. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Running agents unattended, overnight, and not regretting it https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/running-agents-unattended-overnight/ https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/running-agents-unattended-overnight/ Recoverability beats approval gates when nobody is watching the agent work — a practical set of rules for safe unattended runs. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The method was never about the language https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/the-method-was-never-about-the-language/ https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/the-method-was-never-about-the-language/ I taught myself two languages before I taught myself to code. The thing that transferred wasn't vocabulary or syntax — it was a method for turning 'I don't know this' into a plan. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Composable skills beat one giant prompt https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/composable-skills-over-one-giant-prompt/ https://www.alazyengineer.com/blog/composable-skills-over-one-giant-prompt/ Why small, reusable playbooks scale better than a single monolithic system prompt for an agentic coding harness. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT