Tooling 7 min
AI-Assisted Git: Writing Better Commits and PR Descriptions
How to use AI to write commit messages, pull request descriptions, and changelogs that actually communicate intent — and where the workflow breaks down.
Josh
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Tooling 7 min
Using AI to Review Your Own Code Before It Ships
How to use AI coding assistants as a first-pass code reviewer — prompting for real feedback on code you wrote, interpreting what it finds, and fitting it into your workflow.
0degrees Team
Tooling 7 min
Briefing AI on Your Codebase: The Architecture Context That Actually Matters
How to give an AI coding assistant exactly the architectural context it needs to write code that fits your project — without overwhelming it with noise.
0degrees Team
Agents 6 min
Task Decomposition for AI Coding Agents: How to Break Down Complex Features
How to split a complex feature into agent-sized sub-tasks that execute reliably — with concrete patterns and scope rules that prevent drift and rework.
Josh
Fundamentals 5 min
How LLMs Actually Work: The Mental Model Every AI Engineer Needs
The practical model behind next-token prediction, tokens, context windows, and sampling — the fundamentals every other post on this site assumes you already have.
Josh
Tooling 7 min
Upgrading Dependencies with AI: A Systematic Migration Workflow
How to use AI coding assistants to navigate major library upgrades — feeding changelogs, mapping the breaking change surface, and validating the result.
Josh
Agents 7 min
Steering a Drifting AI Agent: How to Correct Course Mid-Task
Practical techniques for recognizing when an AI coding agent has gone off track and redirecting it effectively — before it digs you deeper into the wrong solution.
Josh
Tooling 7 min
Using AI to Explore Unfamiliar Codebases
How to use AI coding assistants as a guide when navigating code you didn't write — from getting an architectural overview to tracing execution paths.
Josh
Tooling 6 min
Refactoring with AI: A Step-by-Step Strategy for Modernizing Legacy Code
How to use AI coding assistants for safe, incremental refactoring — scoping the work, writing safety tests, reviewing generated diffs, and avoiding common pitfalls.
Josh