WithAgents — Agentic Development

WithAgents — Agentic Development Writing on building production software with AI agents. The WithAgents field journal — patterns, tools, and field notes from the practice. https://withagents.dev en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 16:08:34 GMT <![CDATA[23,479 Sessions: What Actually Works in Agentic Development]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-01-series-launch https://withagents.dev/posts/post-01-series-launch Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[3 Agents Found the Bug 1 Agent Missed]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-02-multi-agent-consensus https://withagents.dev/posts/post-02-multi-agent-consensus Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[I Banned Unit Tests and Shipped Faster]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-03-functional-validation https://withagents.dev/posts/post-03-functional-validation Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The 7-Layer Prompt Engineering Stack]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-07-prompt-engineering-stack https://withagents.dev/posts/post-07-prompt-engineering-stack Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[194 Parallel Agents, Zero Merge Conflicts]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-06-parallel-worktrees https://withagents.dev/posts/post-06-parallel-worktrees Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[35 Worktrees, 12 Agents, Zero Merge Conflicts]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-14-multi-agent-merge https://withagents.dev/posts/post-14-multi-agent-merge Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Spec-Driven Development: Why YAML Beats Verbal Instructions for AI Agents]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-11-spec-driven-development https://withagents.dev/posts/post-11-spec-driven-development Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Designer-Less Design Workflow: Stitch MCP and the Death of Figma Handoffs]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-10-stitch-design-to-code https://withagents.dev/posts/post-10-stitch-design-to-code Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Teaching AI to Remember: Cross-Session Memory]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-12-cross-session-memory https://withagents.dev/posts/post-12-cross-session-memory Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[84 Thinking Steps to Find a One-Line Bug]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-13-sequential-thinking-debugging https://withagents.dev/posts/post-13-sequential-thinking-debugging Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Anatomy of a Skill]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-15-skills-anatomy https://withagents.dev/posts/post-15-skills-anatomy Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Building Claude Code Plugins That Actually Work]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-16-claude-code-plugins https://withagents.dev/posts/post-16-claude-code-plugins Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The iOS Patterns Compendium: What 4,597 Sessions Taught Me About SwiftUI, State, and Survival]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-05-ios-patterns https://withagents.dev/posts/post-05-ios-patterns Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[SDK vs CLI: The Decision Framework That Took 23,479 Sessions to Learn]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-18-sdk-vs-cli https://withagents.dev/posts/post-18-sdk-vs-cli Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Five-Layer Streaming Bridge]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-04-ios-streaming-bridge https://withagents.dev/posts/post-04-ios-streaming-bridge Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Self-Correcting Loop: How Ralph Turned Hat-Based Orchestration Into Autonomous Execution]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-08-ralph-orchestrator https://withagents.dev/posts/post-08-ralph-orchestrator Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Mining 23,479 Sessions: What 3.4 Million Lines of AI Logs Actually Reveal]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-09-code-tales https://withagents.dev/posts/post-09-code-tales Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The CCB Evolution: From Bash Script to Autonomous Builder]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-17-ccb-evolution https://withagents.dev/posts/post-17-ccb-evolution Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Anneal: Three Planning Variants for Agentic Development]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-19-anneal https://withagents.dev/posts/post-19-anneal Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Crucible: Refusal-Driven Verification for Claude Code]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-20-crucible https://withagents.dev/posts/post-20-crucible Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Economics of a Session]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-21-economics-of-a-session https://withagents.dev/posts/post-21-economics-of-a-session Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Hooks as a Control Plane]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-22-hook-control-plane https://withagents.dev/posts/post-22-hook-control-plane Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Prompt Caching Economics]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-23-prompt-caching-economics https://withagents.dev/posts/post-23-prompt-caching-economics Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Custom MCP Servers]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-24-custom-mcp-servers https://withagents.dev/posts/post-24-custom-mcp-servers Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Docs When Readers Aren't Human]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-25-docs-for-non-human-readers https://withagents.dev/posts/post-25-docs-for-non-human-readers Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Giving Agents Secrets Without Giving Agents Secrets]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-26-secrets-without-secrets https://withagents.dev/posts/post-26-secrets-without-secrets Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Session Is the Artifact]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-27-session-as-artifact https://withagents.dev/posts/post-27-session-as-artifact Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The AI-Pattern Detector That Ships This Series]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-28-ai-pattern-detector https://withagents.dev/posts/post-28-ai-pattern-detector Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The Skill Marketplace Problem]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-29-skill-marketplace-problem https://withagents.dev/posts/post-29-skill-marketplace-problem Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Notification Architecture for Async Agents]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-30-notification-architecture https://withagents.dev/posts/post-30-notification-architecture Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[Drift Detection]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-31-drift-detection https://withagents.dev/posts/post-31-drift-detection Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski <![CDATA[The 529 Cascade]]> https://withagents.dev/posts/post-32-the-529-cascade https://withagents.dev/posts/post-32-the-529-cascade Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick Krzemienski