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Step-by-step engineering guides and the Coding Is Conversation series.
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Continue the AI development series with Part 7: PapaCoder AI development field notes. This installment is also filed under case studies.
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Draw the Map When a Line Isn’t Enough — Graph Engineering
Part 6 of Coding Is Conversation. DAGs, conditional edges, handoffs vs agents-as-tools, and human escalation nodes.
Design How It Stops — Loop Engineering
Part 5 of Coding Is Conversation. Plan→act→observe, WIP=1, max_turns and retry policy so agents stop spinning.
Build Walls Outside the Prompt — Harness Engineering
Part 4 of Coding Is Conversation. Tools, sandboxes, permissions, and evals that enforce policy outside the model—plus Cursor hooks and PapaCoder’s draft-only API.
Quality Comes From Roles — Multi-Agent Engineering 101
Part 3 of Coding Is Conversation. Move past vibe coding with roles, typed handoffs, and gates—plus copy-paste Research/Implement/Review cards.
Ship by Talking — Vibe Coding From First Prompt to Deploy
Part 2 of Coding Is Conversation. Define vibe coding (Karpathy/Fowler), then ship a Today Focus Board with Cursor prompts, AGENTS.md, and Vercel.
Your First Choice Isn’t the Model — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex & Copilot
Part 1 of Coding Is Conversation. Pick AI coding tools by surface and usage multipliers ($20 / $60–$100 / $200)—not by model brand names alone.