Archive - The AI-Augmented Engineer

Tips for getting the most out of Intent (from its creator!)

I sat down with the lead of Intent, Augment's agent-first software tool

Mar 30

Customizing Claude Code spinner verbs

How to add a little fun to your Claude Code sessions

Mar 23 • Jeff Morhous

Using Claude Code permissions to safeguard environment variables

You shouldn't have your LLM reading your app secrets

Mar 18 • Jeff Morhous

Using worktrees for parallel agents in Codex

Codex makes it really easy to manage background agents, but you'll need to understand worktrees

Mar 12 • Jeff Morhous

Anthropic finally studied skill atrophy for developers

Anthropic just published research on how reliance on AI affects the actual skill of software engineers.

Mar 9 • Jeff Morhous

Block laid off half their staff, citing AI productivity gains

The stock loves it - up 22% this week

Mar 4 • Jeff Morhous

You're only using 20% of Opus 4.6

The features Anthropic shipped alongside the model are where the real workflow changes live.

Mar 2 • Jeff Morhous and Ilia Karelin

February 2026

Codex and Claude Code each made a landing page

Let's make a marketing landing page for my micro-SaaS using each agent tool

Feb 26 • Jeff Morhous

Moving beyond the IDE with Intent

LLMs are making IDEs less and less useful. It's time for new surfaces on which to create software

Feb 23 • Jeff Morhous

I used AI to make an iPhone app I'm actually proud of

You should be building your own portfolio of mini-apps

Feb 20 • Jeff Morhous

14 Creators share their favorite AI tools for making software

There's so many good tools for AI-augmented software engineering - here's some great opinions!

Feb 17 • Jeff Morhous, Michael Jovanovich, Ilia Karelin, Casandra Campbell, Gregor Ojstersek, Logan Thorneloe, Jenny Ouyang, Christian Pean MD, MS, Wyndo, Kamil Banc, Daria Cupareanu, Orel, Barret | Buying to $10M, and Karo (Product with Attitude)

The ultimate NotebookLM tutorial

Spend 5 minutes learning NotebookLM to save HOURS learning anything

Feb 16 • Jeff Morhous

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