Brian McQuay https://brianmcquay.com Thoughts on building software, shipping products, and the craft of engineering. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:58:50 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en All rights reserved 2026, Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Five Year Grind: Why Nothing Worth Building Happens in Months]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/the-five-year-grind https://brianmcquay.com/blog/the-five-year-grind Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[First to RSI Isn't the Winner: Why the Race to Recursive Self-Improvement Misses the Point]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/first-rsi-isnt-the-winner https://brianmcquay.com/blog/first-rsi-isnt-the-winner Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Why AI Alignment Might Be Our Most Pointless Exercise]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/alignment-might-not-matter https://brianmcquay.com/blog/alignment-might-not-matter Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Why Your Agent Needs Data Isolation: Building Safe Multi-Tenant AI Systems]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/multi-tenant-agents https://brianmcquay.com/blog/multi-tenant-agents Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[The Coming Revolution in How We Build Software: Why Programming Languages as We Know Them May Be Obsolete]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/ai-programming-languages https://brianmcquay.com/blog/ai-programming-languages Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[What I've Learned From Working Remotely for Over 20 Years]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/remote-work-networking https://brianmcquay.com/blog/remote-work-networking Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Token Churn: Why Traditional Software Workflows Are Bleeding Your AI Budget]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/agentic-loop-token-churn https://brianmcquay.com/blog/agentic-loop-token-churn Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Automating Flaky Test Fixes: Why Rerunning Tests Until They Pass Is Killing Your CI/CD Pipeline]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/flaky-tests https://brianmcquay.com/blog/flaky-tests Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brian McQuay <![CDATA[Dangerous Open Models: When Safeguards Become Optional]]> https://brianmcquay.com/blog/dangerous-open-models https://brianmcquay.com/blog/dangerous-open-models Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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