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AI Didn't Make Software Engineering Easier or Cheaper

AI ate the 80% of the job that was execution. The 20% that's left, judgment, design, knowing what not to build, is now the whole job, and the same human brain has to hold more of it. That work didn't get cheaper. It got rarer and more expensive.

June 4, 20267 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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Winter is coming for AI developer wallets

Anthropic's June 15 billing split exposed what was already true: $200 Claude and Codex subscriptions subsidize agent workloads at 15–30x. The metered reality is $500–$2,000 a month for heavy users. Here is what the math actually says, what other tools are doing about it, and why Churro Coder embeds the native CLI instead of calling the SDK.

May 15, 20268 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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Truly Autonomous AI Coder Agents: Where the Frontier Actually Is

Ralph loops, Playwright MCP, log and database access — what does an AI coder agent actually need to ship production work without a human in the loop? A grounded look at the stack, the limits, and a worked autonomous bugfixing workflow.

May 12, 202614 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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Is My Code Repo AI Ready?

AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, workflows, OpenSpec — the conventions stack keeps growing, but how do you actually know your repo is legible to coding agents? A look at the agent-readiness tooling, what the ETH Zurich research really says, and the minimum path to a sensible maturity level for a small team.

May 9, 202612 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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Spec-Driven Development: Hype or Worth It?

Vibe coding without a harness ships hallucinations. Heavy spec frameworks slow small teams to a crawl. Here is why Spec-Driven Development matters in the AI era, where the sweet spot lives, and why OpenSpec is the lightweight harness most teams actually need.

May 7, 20266 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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AI slop is a skill issue

AI is a multiplier, not a generator. Multiply zero by anything and you still get zero. Here is how senior architects at IBERANT drive AI to ship code worth shipping, and why the people complaining about AI slop are usually the ones producing it.

April 26, 20265 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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Building AI-augmented software: our engineering philosophy

How IBERANT approaches software development in the era of AI — where human expertise and machine intelligence work as one to deliver at an entirely different speed.

April 9, 20263 min readby Alejandro Tamayo
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