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Jun 18, 2026
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Stop overloading your skills

Waldek Mastykarz

You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens. It already knows Models have ingested your documentation, your Stack Overflow answers, yo...

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Jun 17, 2026
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When your agent extensions fight each other

Waldek Mastykarz

This is the fourth article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to iterate toward better outcomes. You shipped your extension, m...

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Jun 16, 2026
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Competing against yourself

Waldek Mastykarz

You shipped a new CLI: better developer experience, modern architecture, and optimized for agents. You deprecated the old one, updated the docs, and blogged about it. Developers are migrating. Then someone asks an AI coding agent to scaffold a project, and the agent... uses the old tool. Training data gravity Models learn from the internet. If ...

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Jun 11, 2026
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Your agent just scaffolded a project from 2020

Waldek Mastykarz

Your agent ran a scaffold command. Project generated, dependencies resolved, no errors. Everything looks fine. Except it's based on the project structure from 2020, and neither you nor the agent noticed. How npx picks the right-but-wrong version When an agent scaffolds a project or runs a CLI tool, it often reaches for without specifying a versi...

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Jun 10, 2026
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Is your agent extension actually working?

Waldek Mastykarz

This is the third article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to iterate toward better outcomes. You shipped your skill, wrot...

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Jun 10, 2026
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Stop skillmaxxing, save your tokens

Waldek Mastykarz

You built a dozen skills for your technology: authentication, CRUD, error handling, deployment, testing, monitoring. Then you installed a cloud platform bundle with 15 more covering diagnostics, storage, compliance, and cost optimization. A design suite. A marketing pack. Document converters for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF. Fifty skills, all sitti...

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May 27, 2026
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How AI coding agents actually use your technology

Waldek Mastykarz

You ship an SDK, a CLI, an API, and developers use it. Now AI coding agents use it too, except they use it differently than humans do. Most of the time you have no idea what's actually happening between "developer types a prompt" and "agent generates code with your technology." Is the agent reading your docs? Is it calling your MCP server? Is it ig...

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May 21, 2026
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The AX stack: what’s fixed, where you can win

Waldek Mastykarz

AI coding agents promise to make you more productive. On the surface they do, but in practice they fall short: agents generate code that doesn't compile, use a deprecated SDK, or pick the wrong service entirely. Is it you using it wrong? Is it your tech stack? Or is it the tools you haven't configured yet? The stack between a developer's prompt ...

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