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Ryan Lopopolo writes about software engineering, AI agents, organizations, and systems.

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Posts
42 from 27 Oct 2018 to 12 Sep 2026
Posting
monthly (19 in the last year)
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personal blog

2026 18

  1. Aligned to whom?
  2. Agent Platforms for Inventing Agents
  3. Harness Engineering Is Just-in-Time In-Context Learning
  4. Tell the Model How to Work, Not What to Do
  5. Harness Engineering the Homelab
  6. Scaling Bespoke Work With Agents
  7. Code Reds Need Maintenance Loops
  8. Please Go Brr, on Token Mandates
  9. Enabling Codex to Upgrade My Robot Vacuum
  10. What Does It Mean to Do a Good Job?
  11. Coding Agents for Technical Non-Engineers
  12. A Lazy Prompt Turned Into a RustSec Advisory
  13. The Production Function Changed
  14. Software Work Is No Longer Scheduled
  15. Stop Treating Code as the Artifact
  16. Agent Utilization Is the New Performance Ceiling
  17. Harness Engineering the Blog Build (Again)
  18. Winding Down Artichoke Ruby

2025 5

  1. It’s Not Codex, It’s Codex/GPT-5-Codex
  2. Ruby Enumerable: Manifest Destiny
  3. MCP Solves Tool Discovery for LLMs
  4. Debazeling the blog
  5. Service meshes are organization tools, not technical ones

2023 5

  1. LaTeX Escapism
  2. Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
  3. Scaling Myself by Letting My Team Fail
  4. Feedback Windows
  5. I Wrote 4,000 Lines of Code with ChatGPT in a Weekend

2021 1

  1. Debugging an mruby Heap Corruption in Artichoke with Pernosco

2020 1

  1. Source-level Polymorphism in Rust

2019 7

  1. Communicating with the Synthesis Step
  2. Cactus Harvesting: Cycle-Aware Reference Counting in Rust
  3. The Conjoined Villages: Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau
  4. Sprint Log, 2019-03-08
  5. hyperbola :: blog
  6. Senior Engineers Build Consensus
  7. Reflections on Learning Rust By Building Punchtop

2018 5

  1. Social Coding 2018 Recap
  2. Postmortem: 502s During Parameter Store Rollout
  3. Blue-Green Deployments With Autoscaling Groups and Terraform
  4. Productive Engineering–Finance Partnership
  5. AWS Is Your Org Chart