Working with Agents

Practical field notes on agentic coding: principles, toolchain, and workflows that hold up in real work.

I'm a Senior Engineering Leader at Alan, practicing AI for coding since mid-2024 and more extensively since mid-2025. This is a living, working knowledge base, not a textbook. It's what I've learned using AI coding agents day to day. Expect it to grow and change as the field does.

Sections

• Learnings: distilled principles, mental models, dos and don'ts.
• Toolchain: the tools I lean on and how I use them.
• Workflows: reusable patterns for working with agents.
• Links: an annotated reading list.