shane logsdon · writing
2026.08.05
Engineering Leadership Articles
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2026.07.29
July 29, 2026
I audited Stripe, Clerk, and Neon's docs for whether AI assistants can find and cite them, and found the best sites in developer tools are only two layers into a six-layer AEO stack. Nobody owns that work yet, which makes it DevRel's to claim.
002
2026.07.09
July 9, 2026
You don't design a durable AI agent framework. You find one through a series of intentional failures. Here's what six iterations taught me.
003
2026.05.18
May 18, 2026
AI gets you to 75% fast, then stalls. The wall isn't the model's capability, it's the specification boundary: the territory your spec left undefined. Here's how to plan for it.
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2026.05.11
May 11, 2026
The reason AI-assisted builds stall isn't the model: design decisions were never made. Here's why writing the spec first changes everything.
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2026.05.04
May 4, 2026
Most CLAUDE.md files decay because they're written as config and forgotten. Here's how to treat them as living artifacts that improve over time.
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2026.04.27
April 27, 2026
AI coding tools don't fail on prompts. They fail on ambiguous artifacts. Here's what Agent Experience means in practice and why it starts with your spec, not your model.
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