Elliot Betancourt

Code, AI, and the Craft of Building

Exploring software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the tools reshaping how we create.

LATEST JUL 31, 2026

The Coding Agent Exception, Six Months Later: A Scorecard for Your Next Project

Back in March I wrote about why coding agents are a best-case scenario, not a template. This week I turned that reasoning into six questions you can run against your next candidate project before you build it.

Elliot Betancourt

Recent Articles

MAY 01 2026

Loud Failure Is a Gift. Quiet Failure Is a Debt.

Three failure modes in production agent systems that don't generate errors — and why structural fixes beat reactive ones. The case study, the audit...

APR 24 2026

The Post-Subscription Agent Economy

Anthropic just pulled OpenClaw off Claude subscription pricing. OpenAI and Google will follow. Here's what that means for builders — and the archit...

APR 17 2026

The Most Reliable AI Systems Use the Least AI

Why the best AI agent systems minimize AI usage — and how a three-layer architecture makes everything faster, cheaper, and actually reliable.

APR 10 2026

The Role That's Replacing All the Ones Getting Cut

126K tech jobs cut in 2026, but the new postings aren't for AI Engineers. They're for domain experts who know how to build with AI. The hybrid role...

MAR 27 2026

Anthropic Leaked Their Own Model. Here's What Practitioners Should Actually Care About.

Anthropic Leaked Their Own Model. Here's What Practitioners Should Actually Care About. Anthropic — the company whose entire brand is "we take...

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