25 years of .NET.
Now shipping
with agents.

Field notes on AI coding assistants, agentic workflows, and the tooling around them — from a senior engineer who is still on the hook for what ships.

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rob@fortworthdev:~$ whoami
rob — senior .NET engineer, 25 years shipping. Fort Worth, TX.
rob@fortworthdev:~$ cat focus.md
AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, developer tooling.
Field notes written while the work is being done — not after.
rob@fortworthdev:~$ ls -t notes/ | head -2
total 0 — first note in progress
rob@fortworthdev:~$ git status
On branch main. Working tree: building in public.
rob@fortworthdev:~$

./workflow --status

fortworthdev.com/ stage: write

This site — a terminal-native Astro build, designed and shipped end-to-end with AI coding agents. The workflow behind it is the first case study.
ai-devs-meeting/ stage: build

A recurring AI Developers meeting at work: assistants, agents, and the habits that make them safe on real codebases. Notes from it feed the field notes here.

ls -t notes/

total 0 — no notes yet.

git diff -- principles.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ how I work now

Replaced: trust the output when it looks right

With: verify before you trust; speed without verification is faster failure
Replaced: write a better prompt

With: engineer the context: what the model needs to know, and nothing it does not
Replaced: reach for an agent

With: reach for a workflow first — agents only where the path is genuinely unknown
Replaced: let the model own the repo

With: keep a human on every irreversible step: merge, deploy, delete, spend
Replaced: ship the demo

With: ship what you can still maintain in six months, with or without the model
Replaced: write it up once it is figured out

With: write it down while the sharp edges are still fresh

tree resources/

6 entries, every one used before it was listed. Last verified 2026-08-02.

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25 years of .NET.Now shippingwith agents.

25 years of .NET.
Now shipping
with agents.