Engineering

Imagine a business agreement that executes itself: no intermediaries, no paperwork delays, no risk of someone not holding up their end of the deal.…

Most engineers assume the path to staff is paved with better code. Better architecture. Deeper mastery of patterns and systems. For a long time,…

In November 2025, Justin Young at Anthropic published a post on what they had learned running long-running coding agents. One observation in that post…

I had a conversation with a tech lead at a client last quarter that crystallized why this article needed to exist. They had spent…

In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy tweeted a phrase that stuck: “There’s a new kind of coding I call vibe coding, where you fully give…

A few weeks ago I sat with one of our senior engineers while he debugged a project that had gone sideways. The team was…

The framing I keep coming back to is from Andrej Karpathy’s June 2025 talk at YC’s AI Startup School. He called it “Software 3.0”…

This post assumes familiarity with AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, etc.), basic prompt engineering concepts, and rules files (Cursor’s .cursor/rules/ or Claude…

AI is widely discussed, but rarely implemented in ways users interact with every day. At Cheesecake Labs, we focus on applying AI solutions directly…