I'm convinced that the most important skill you can have for using AI agents is... delegation.

It's almost exactly the same skill set as delegating to people. Maybe the main difference is that AI is trained not to need incentives.

Are we all becoming managers now? Should we read HBR instead of HN?

Claude Code's "Skills" are too static, so I implemented a way to inject dynamic context into coding agents in an extensible way. Might sound clever but it's so simple that I'm surprised it's not a common approach.

dave.engineer/blog/2026/01...

Have you ever had a massive JSON file that you wanted to understand the structure of, but it was too big for an LLM, so you wanted to dedupe similar JSONPath nodes to make it simpler, but there wasn't an easy way to do it?

Now there is: tools.dave.engineer/tools/json-s...

100% local & private.

Have you ever wanted to share your VSCode #Copilot chat session with someone, to show what prompts you used? Or wanted to see details of what Copilot is up to under the hood?

Now you can: tools.dave.engineer/tools/copilo...

100% local and browser based, so your data never leaves your system.

I made a tiny macOS utility to control your mouse pointer with the keyboard.

Download and code: github.com/dave1010/Asd...

Quick write up: dave.engineer/blog/2025/12...

1/ Claude Opus 4.5 dropped today.

The benchmarks are interesting but the real story is in the 150-page system card.

A few highlights 👇

I made a tool that lets you use Claude Skills with any coding agent: dave.engineer/blog/2025/11...

Set it up as a GitHub action in 2 minutes: github.com/dave1010/ski...

Today I gave one of the most challenging talks I’ve ever done: Post-Quantum Cryptography.

Explaining enough of the basics of cryptography and quantum mechanics to show why this matters, all in just an hour, was much harder than I thought it would be.

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