Archive - The Cultivated Engineer

How I work with subagents

...or how I rarely use more than 50% of the available context window anymore

Jul 27 •

June 2025

Thinking Traps from the pre-agentic age

Just like water is invisible to fish, so are habits that I’ve built up over the years before agentic coding.

Jun 24 •

Introducing texted – a text editor for LLMs

...what happens when LLMs edit text like humans?

Jun 5 •

A million beginner projects

...how to leverage vibe-coding for your own learning

Jun 3 •

⏩ joining Sourcegraph to work on Amp

Everything is changing

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Grow your own agent

...build on what Thorsten encouraged you to do

May 13 •

Where are all the clients?

Specialized UIs will be just that – tools for special occasions

May 8 •

April 2025

Agentic coding with examples

Relinquish control for a bigger reward

Apr 19 •

How I use aider

No, you don't need to write your own agent

Apr 9 •

March 2025

Cursor without rules

Yes, you can use Cursor without rules

Mar 20 •

Maybe the problem is you

if you are not getting enough value out of LLMs for coding.

Mar 14 •

Questions to ask yourself

when coding with an LLM

Mar 12 •

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