I'm Scott Drake. I write software and teach leadership, but what I really do is study complex things and turn those insights into systems anyone can use. This site is where I share past and current work.

Twelve hours. That's how long it took to build a feature that would have been two to three weeks of work six months ago.

Not a prototype. Not a proof of concept. A report generation system that requires research and analysis spread across multiple LLM calls, plugged into an existing module with es...

The most important skill in AI-assisted development isn't prompting. It's management.

I spent this week building agents, shipping code with agents, and cleaning up after agents. And the pattern that kept showing up had nothing to do with the technology. It was the same pattern I've been teaching i...

This week, I focused on using the BMad (Breakthrough Method of Agile AI Driven Development) with a real project. BMad is a collection of 12+ agents trained to act as domain experts in software development.

BMad's (GitHub | Docs) Agents are just sets of instructions stored in files. These instr...

I wrapped up two big initiatives this week—moving a set of services from cloud platforms to Linux VPSs, and finally launching this blog. That freed up some mental space to start experimenting with agentic, command-line coding tools.

I spent time with two of them:

• OpenAI’s Codex
• Anthropic’...