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Software Engineer · Toronto
Bobby Jose
I build software end to end —
and write about how it really gets made.
C# & Azure roots, now deep in agentic AI. Field notes on the tools, ideas, and announcements changing how we ship — written for engineers who build.
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AI Was Supposed to Kill Dev Jobs. The Postings Went Up.
July 10, 2026 · 5 min read
New Indeed data says software job postings are up 15% since Claude Code shipped, while postings everywhere else fell. It's the most hopeful number I've seen for our profession in two years. It's also hiding a second number that decides whether that hope is for you or against you.
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The Month AI Models Stopped Being an Event
July 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Five flagship models landed in two weeks and I felt nothing. That's not fatigue — it's a signal. When a new frontier model becomes a Tuesday and a delayed one becomes the headline, the interesting story has quietly moved somewhere else. Here's where I think it went.
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When the Government Paused an AI Model — and the Bug Was My Job Description
July 1, 2026 · 5 min read
For eighteen days this June, the most capable Claude model on Earth was switched off by order of the U.S. Commerce Department. The trigger wasn't a bioweapon recipe. It was a prompt asking the model to read a codebase and fix its flaws — which is to say, the thing I ask it to do every single working day.
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Loop Engineering, or: The Cron Job Buys a Hat
June 25, 2026 · 5 min read
Twelve words on the timeline this month declared prompting dead and 'loop engineering' its successor. I've run Claude Code daily for a year — long enough to recognize a real idea wearing a very loud costume. Here's the calm version, and the one number the evangelists keep leaving out.
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The Web Just Started Charging AI Agents at the Door
June 19, 2026 · 4 min read
At AWS Summit New York 2026, AWS WAF added a capability that lets publishers price, meter, and bill the AI bots and agents hitting their content and APIs. It's a pay-per-crawl tollbooth for the agent era — and it quietly rewrites the economics of scraping, RAG, and every agent that 'just reads the web.'
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Kiro vs. Claude Code: Spec-First Meets Prompt-First
June 18, 2026 · 5 min read
At AWS Summit New York 2026, Kiro — Amazon's spec-driven agentic IDE — got an iOS app, security-agent plugins, and a fresh spotlight. I've run Claude Code daily for a year. Here's the honest difference between writing a spec first and prompting first, and why I'm finally going to trial Kiro on my Mac.