Archive - The AI-Augmented Engineer

GPT-5: Slowing AI progress (and chart crime!)

GPT-5 is cool, but progress is obviously slowing and the announcements are FULL of misleading charts to hide this

Aug 10

The ultimate overview of AI tools for work

A (mostly) complete guide to the options you have in front of you (and how to choose)

Aug 2

July 2025

ChatGPT agent is the next evolution of AI

Everything you need to know about the the tool that can do work for you on its own computer

Jul 18

Building a feature with Claude Code

Claude Code is growing in popularity, but why? Is a CLI actually better?

Jul 12

What the heck did Cursor do to pricing?

Is it time to move to Windsurf? Claude Code?

Jul 7

Using OpenAI's Codex to add a real feature to a real SaaS

Follow along as I use Codex to add a feature to my deep work timer app (and compare it to Cursor!)

Jul 1

June 2025

Andrej Karpathy says software is changing (again)

The OpenAI founder and Tesla Autopilot leader has a lot to say about how LLMs are changing software

Jun 23

Making LLM context actually work for you

What you feed your AI tools matters - here's how AI uses context

Jun 20

Building a micro-SaaS in an afternoon with AI

How I used v0 and Cursor to ship a functional SaaS in just a few hours

Jun 11

How Zapier measures AI fluency for engineers

Companies are starting to include AI fluency in performance reviews - here's Zapier's rubric

Jun 7

May 2025

Using NotebookLM to actually learn new things

Using AI for work isn't only about getting things done faster!

May 31

Start here: Welcome to The Augmented Engineer

Are you a software engineer that wants to use AI to make more money? You're in the right place

May 30

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