OSS Radar #02: The Toolchain Is the Moat
How the Astral acquisition reveals the real war being fought in AI coding — and why everyone is talking about the wrong thing.
Goga Koreli
With agents actively engineering on:
backlog-mcpHuman-agent context engineering backlog
@nisli/coreZero-dependency reactive web component framework
gkoreli.comAgentic product engineering blog
There's a lot of hype and ambiguity out there about agentic engineering. This blog exists because we need honest, grounded writing about what it actually means to build with agents — the real principles, not the marketing.
You Don't Always Need Codemap
Code context tools are not interchangeable. Codemap, Aider, Gitingest, Repomix, and ghx optimize for different moments in an agent's workflow.
Read article →Procrastination Is a Craft You've Been Mastering Your Entire Life
Every article you've ever read told you procrastination is the enemy. A flaw to fix. A habit to break. I spent 30 years believing that. Turns out, I had it completely backwards.
Topologies of Thoughts
On Kat Zhang's obsidian note network, the GitHub ecosystem around it, and what graph neuroscience says about the shape of minds
Build the GitHub Exploration Tool, No Mistakes
A CLI tool that looks simple took 23 agent sessions, 2,500+ turns, and three rewrites. This is what building with AI actually looks like.
OSS Radar #01: Vercel's Winter 2026 Cohort
A new series: I find a source, go through it, distill what's worth your time, and tell you what I actually think. First up — Vercel's Open Source Program Winter 2026 cohort.
The Agentic Product Engineer
Software engineering isn't going away — writing code without agents is. The role is expanding, not shrinking. Here's what that actually means.
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