rakesh

Building • Author 📖 The Second Time Is a Bug ( • • ex @atlassian

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

it’s out today.. six months later 🙂‍↕️

pdf + epub on leanpub
chapter 6 is free if you want to see if it’s your thing

https://t.co/LRB90Y9u7X

#secondtimeisabug

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

Six months of writing, rewriting, and occasionally questioning everything I thought I knew about AI-assisted software engineering.

The result is The Second Time Is a Bug, a practical field workbook on building reliable systems around AI coding agents.

34 patterns. 26 reproducible drills. One central idea: the first mistake may be the model's, but the second deserves an engineering response.

Publishing soon.

https://t.co/yJrzxgc9Ts

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

@Denche2005 tests written in the same session as the bug, so of course they agree with it lol

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@omarsar0 his posts were half my Claude Code setup tbh... hope he keeps writing wherever he lands

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@GergelyOrosz @Lethain more PRs in a year than a whole exec career... agents quietly made going back to IC the fun option again

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@kaijucode the CRC32 that's actually FNV-1a example is exactly why the reviewer shouldn't be the same model that wrote it

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@DanKornas short names are great until the model has its own idea of what "clean architecture" means... still need a test that checks it

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@clairevo esc and redirect mid-run is half of why I stay in CC

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@jxnlco you don't... they're the only ones who read till the end :))

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@dhh the Hangzhou trip already showing up in the dotfiles lol

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@DaveShapi a workhorse.. as long as you fence the field with a decent memory and some intent-ful hooks lol

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

if "don’t touch the tests" actually matters, it shouldn’t live in CLAUDE[.md]..

a PreToolUse hook that rejects writes under "tests" is like 10 lines and the agent can’t talk its way past it

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

Quick preview of what I'm planning to start off with :))

#thesomedayfolder

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

trying something new... writing a book in public for the first time

it's called "the someday folder"... for anyone with a folder full of half-finished side projects, now that AI can help build almost anything.. why hold back?

first chapters go up next week, new ones every 1-2 weeks till launch... all free while i’m writing it

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

Harness Engineering. That's what most of the book is about. Increasing reliability of your coding agents..

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

Six months of writing, rewriting, and occasionally questioning everything I thought I knew about AI-assisted software engineering.

The result is The Second Time Is a Bug, a practical field workbook on building reliable systems around AI coding agents.

34 patterns. 26 reproducible drills. One central idea: the first mistake may be the model's, but the second deserves an engineering response.

Publishing soon.

https://t.co/yJrzxgc9Ts

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

it's on leanpub, hit "notify me" and you'll get the first chapters next week: https://t.co/DzdXkX7Fv4

tell me where you stop reading... that's the feedback i want most :)

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

trying something new... writing a book in public for the first time

it's called "the someday folder"... for anyone with a folder full of half-finished side projects, now that AI can help build almost anything.. why hold back?

first chapters go up next week, new ones every 1-2 weeks till launch... all free while i’m writing it

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

@anupamrjp https://t.co/Rv2xayiAN2

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

@boardyai sk_live_Z29vZF90cnlfbm9fcGVla2luZ19hdF9teV9rZXlz

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

@_mctrinh design and systems thinking.

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

if you want to know whether your AI/SI reviewer actually catches stuff... plant a bug you already know about and open the PR

off by one, a missing await, a test that asserts nothing

if it says "looks good, minor nits" that’s your answer

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@GergelyOrosz true... the half life of a "best practice" in agent tooling right now is like 3 weeks

[rakesh @SublimeCoderX]

@RayFernando1337 starting from a real designer's theme is the move... "make it look good" gets you the same purple gradient every time lol