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Software. AI. The human part.A human perspective on AI, the future of software engineering, and the skills that keep developers relevant.
- Artificial intelligence
- Software culture
- Career & craft
Where are you
starting from?
Less noise.
More perspective.
The tools are moving fast. Our thinking needs room to catch up.
Ghost in the Repo is an independent space for making sense of an industry being reshaped by AI. What’s changing, what’s worth learning, and what it means for the people doing the work.
It starts with questions. It gets better with conversation. And it stays grounded in the craft of building software.
A few things worth thinking aboutSignals worth
sitting with.
On the industry, the tools, and the work that still matters.
- Building with AI
A code review prompt that starts from the request.
Give the reviewer the request, not just the diff, and treat what it says as leads to check.
3 min read - Building with AI
Seven AI coding guidelines a team will actually follow.
Write rules for the people first, then tell the agent what the people decided.
3 min read - Building with AI
You don't need a new tool to write test cases with AI.
A requirement and a chat assistant are enough, and the skill is choosing which cases matter.
3 min read
New tools. Deep roots.
Frameworks change. Models improve.
Go for DSA
From your first Go program to trees, graphs and dynamic programming.
JavaScript for DSA
Algorithmic thinking, built on examples you can run in Node.js.
Introduction to Codex
Setup, coursework, debugging and projects, with an AI that codes.
Debugging Is the Skill
Find the fault in any code, including the code an AI wrote for you.
Knowing how to reason about a problem gives you something to build on.
Build your foundations with Go and JavaScript, learn to use Codex for coursework and projects, and learn to debug any code, including an AI’s. Four free field guides. Your pace.
Lead an engineering team?
Your AI code gets rewritten.
A fixed-price, two-week audit of how your team uses AI coding tools, measured on the rework rate in your own git history. Then a 30-day pilot that is free if the number does not move.
See the audit offerGood questions.
Open conversation.
This is also the home of Ghost in the Repo on Instagram. The same curiosity, in a shorter format: views on AI, shifts in software, and finding a way forward.