Brian McQuay https://brianmcquay.com Thoughts on building software, shipping products, and the craft of engineering. Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:40:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en All rights reserved 2026, Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Regression Tests for Non-Deterministic Skills: Why Your AI Code Reviews Need Behavioral Testing]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/regression-tests https://brianmcquay.com/blog/regression-tests Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Why AI-Generated Code Needs Better Task Decomposition]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/forest-for-the-trees https://brianmcquay.com/blog/forest-for-the-trees Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Going Dark: Why I'm Automating My Software Factory From Ticket to Merge]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/going-dark https://brianmcquay.com/blog/going-dark Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Back to Sandstorm: Why I'm Abandoning Claude Directly for Multi-Agent Orchestration]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/back-to-sandstorm https://brianmcquay.com/blog/back-to-sandstorm Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Future is Here: Automatically Optimizing API Endpoints with AI]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/ai-api-optimization https://brianmcquay.com/blog/ai-api-optimization Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Future of Bug Fixes: When Exception Remediation Costs Approach Zero]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/proactive-bug-fixes https://brianmcquay.com/blog/proactive-bug-fixes Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Orchestration Era Is Transitional: What Happens When AI No Longer Needs Our Scaffolding?]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/orchestration-era https://brianmcquay.com/blog/orchestration-era Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[When Your LLM Does Too Much: Moving from AI-Everything to Deterministic Workflows]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/deterministic-workflow https://brianmcquay.com/blog/deterministic-workflow Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Hidden Cost of Token Bloat: What Telemetry Taught Me About AI Tool Optimization]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/telemetry-token-bloat https://brianmcquay.com/blog/telemetry-token-bloat Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Back to Being a Bottleneck: Why I'm Okay With Slowing Down My AI Software Factory]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/planning-bottleneck https://brianmcquay.com/blog/planning-bottleneck Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Token Limits: The Hidden Cost of Building Production-Grade AI Workflows]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/token-limits https://brianmcquay.com/blog/token-limits Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Quality Gates: Why Your AI Agents Are Only As Good As Your Tickets]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/quality-gates https://brianmcquay.com/blog/quality-gates Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Building at the Frontier: How I Built My Own AI Agent Orchestrator and Finished a Two-Week Sprint in Three Days]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/sandstorm-desktop https://brianmcquay.com/blog/sandstorm-desktop Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Sandstorm: Multi-Agent Containerization for the Rest of Us]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/sandstorm https://brianmcquay.com/blog/sandstorm Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[How I Rebuilt My i18n Libraries to Scale Across Four Programming Languages]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/i18n-refactor https://brianmcquay.com/blog/i18n-refactor Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Death of Hand-Coding: Why 2026 Is the Year of AI Builder Factories]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/death-of-hand-coding https://brianmcquay.com/blog/death-of-hand-coding Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Script Solution: Why I Make LLMs Write Code Instead of Doing the Work]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/the-script-solution https://brianmcquay.com/blog/the-script-solution Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[How I Built a Battle Card Game in 30 Days Using Agentic AI]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/built-battle-card-game-30-days-agentic-ai https://brianmcquay.com/blog/built-battle-card-game-30-days-agentic-ai Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[What I Mean When I Say Agentic AI Changes Everything]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/agentic-ai-changes-everything https://brianmcquay.com/blog/agentic-ai-changes-everything Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay