https://blog.scotterickson.info/ Scott's Blog en-us https://blog.scotterickson.info/2026-09-15-Agentic-Stacks https://blog.scotterickson.info/2026-09-15-Agentic-Stacks Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Over the last couple years, I've seen the greatest improvements in my agentic coding not from new models or updated tools provided by companies like Anthropic or Cursor, but from direct integrations with and improvements to my own stack: the deterministic scripts and libraries that harness these agents for the specific technologies and products I work on. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2026-02-17-Bottom-Up https://blog.scotterickson.info/2026-02-17-Bottom-Up Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT I find the bold visions for AI-powered software development genuinely intriguing. The idea that highly personalized applications could be generated and maintained from specs alone, that swarms of agents could build and iterate autonomously, that an AI with full access to your systems could act as a true personal assistant — these are fascinating possibilities, and I think about them regularly, in https://blog.scotterickson.info/2026-01-03-2025-Retro https://blog.scotterickson.info/2026-01-03-2025-Retro Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Happy New Year! https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-07-05-Six-Month-Status https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-07-05-Six-Month-Status Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT It's been a few months since I posted about my roadmap, and six months since I started work on this project to grapple with AI, so I thought I'd give a general update of how things are going, where I'm at, and where I'm headed. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-06-14-Governing-Products https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-06-14-Governing-Products Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT When I think about how software development and other roles will evolve over the coming years, Factorio comes to mind. It's a computer game, sort of an overhead RTS, where you crash land on an alien planet, and over time go from gathering materials and building conveyer belts by hand, to designing and building huge, ever-growing and heavily optimized factories. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-05-10-Workflow-First-Iteration https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-05-10-Workflow-First-Iteration Sat, 10 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT Last time I wrote, I described a roadmap to prove or disprove various elements of my DX theory. This helped clarify for myself what I needed to build on the way: a workflow tool. I went ahead and built a prototype soon after that blog post, and have since played around with it. Now can lay out more elements for a sufficiently comprehensive workflow tool. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-05-24-Accountability-and-Gaslighting https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-05-24-Accountability-and-Gaslighting Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT I'm trying to make sense of what I see and hear around how AI tools are transforming the software industry, and I keep coming back to the term "gaslighting". https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-25-Roadmap https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-25-Roadmap Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT Writing is an invaluable tool for the thinking process. Even if the only reader of a piece is the author, it has value in that it is a forcing function for organizing, critiquing, and solidifying thoughts. Sort of in the same way developers talk about "rubber ducking" something, in trying to explain an intractable problem to a rubber duck, often times just explaining something reveals the answer. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-18-Theory-of-Dx https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-18-Theory-of-Dx Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT I have a working theory how best to set up your project for AI, and it revolves around DX: Developer Experience. My theory is that what helps engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers be efficient and productive, and what helps coding agents to be efficient and productive, are basically the same thing. So for anyone building software wanting to make the most of these new and evolving tools, https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-11-Reliability https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-11-Reliability Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT If there's one question I'm trying to answer right now, it's how much LLMs can do to expedite and make more accessible creating complex web apps. I'm talking web apps with 3rd party integrations, background processes, webhooks, public APIs and more, as well as all the supporting features a web developer expects to have when developing and maintaining such products. Analytics, alerts, feature gates https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-04-Planning-And-Execution https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-04-04-Planning-And-Execution Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT Last time I talked about one of the key things I do differently when doing a given task with AI (I use, generate, and update docs for that kind of task). This time I want to talk about how I do a series of tasks that ladder up to a feature, how to work with AI at the next highest level. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-03-27-Doc-Driven-AI https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-03-27-Doc-Driven-AI Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT I expect code quality to become more important than ever when building and maintaining code with AI. Linters, tests, and modularity are key to efficient and well written generated code, but today I want to dive into documentation, which I haven't seen talked about as much. https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-03-25-Learned-So-Far https://blog.scotterickson.info/2025-03-25-Learned-So-Far Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT I inaugurate this blog with a post about AI 🤖. As a web developer and entrepreneur, it's pretty omni-present, and I'm currently diving in deep. I've only really begun making an acquaintance with AI tools and methodologies, but I'm forming opinions. I'm putting up this site and blog in part to share those insights, and to start conversations.