Type safety and AI in software development, and the seam where they meet.https://nathantranquilla.me/en-ushttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/taking-responsibility-for-your-ai-generated-code/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/taking-responsibility-for-your-ai-generated-code/You can own code you never read, if what you certify is the intent. Acceptance criteria you approve become the tests, and the agent picks the assertion but not what counts as correct.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAICodingNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/teach-claude-your-project-once-benefit-forever/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/teach-claude-your-project-once-benefit-forever/Claude Code knows software development but not your project. Skills are how you teach it your conventions once, so the lessons stick instead of being re-explained every session.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTClaudeNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/coding-is-not-for-humans/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/coding-is-not-for-humans/AI writes most of my code now. If code is no longer written for humans to read, do clean code patterns and static types still matter, and what is left for the developer to do?Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAICodingNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/why-every-desk-job-is-becoming-an-ai-apprenticeship/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/why-every-desk-job-is-becoming-an-ai-apprenticeship/I no longer write code. Reading the agent's plan now takes as long as the work itself, and that inversion is arriving for every desk job, not just software.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIFuture Of WorkKnowledge WorkEducationNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/when-two-ai-pipelines-meet--turning-curated-data-into-a-daily-api/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/when-two-ai-pipelines-meet--turning-curated-data-into-a-daily-api/A free quote of the day API with no human curation: how quotes were qualified, correlated to YouTube scenes, cycled daily, and kept safe for work by two AI pipelines.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIPrompt EngineeringAutomationAPINathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/i-am-a-web-developer-and-here-is-why-i-dont-use-typescript/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/i-am-a-web-developer-and-here-is-why-i-dont-use-typescript/One in three professional developers still resists TypeScript after thirteen years. Their grievances are real: as casts, structural holes, and build times. Here is what I use instead.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTypeScriptType SafetyJavaScriptNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/ai-powered-video-curation-from-naive-search-to-confident-matches/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/ai-powered-video-curation-from-naive-search-to-confident-matches/Naive YouTube search returned poor clips for The Office Lines, so I put Claude on both ends: one prompt writes the query, another judges the results and scores its confidence.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIPrompt EngineeringAutomationNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/using-ai-to-automate-quality-content-delivery/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/using-ai-to-automate-quality-content-delivery/Classifying 60,000 lines of Office dialogue by topic, in context, using Claude. How the prompt was engineered, how confidence scoring worked, and what it cost.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIPrompt EngineeringAutomationNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/typescript-has-a-big-problem/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/typescript-has-a-big-problem/AI collapsed the cost of writing code, so the bottleneck moved to compile times and how reliably your types prevent production bugs. TypeScript's design makes both harder.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTNext-Gen Web DevAINathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/the-4-pillars-of-next-gen-web-dev/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/the-4-pillars-of-next-gen-web-dev/TypeScript is showing cracks: slow builds, incomplete safety, and partial abandonment by large companies. Four criteria for judging what replaces it.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/why-rescript-is-next-gen/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/why-rescript-is-next-gen/Languages evolve by fixing the previous generation's problems while staying familiar. TypeScript was one such step. ReScript is the next, and it fixes what TypeScript could not.Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTReScriptNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/strong-type-systems-are-required-for-a-safer-web/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/strong-type-systems-are-required-for-a-safer-web/Developers, product managers and companies all want the same thing from types: fewer production incidents. TypeScript was built to deliver that, and it only partly does.Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTType SafetyNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/the-reality-of-rescript-optimization-claims/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/the-reality-of-rescript-optimization-claims/ReScript claims its compiler guides you toward performant code by default. I benchmarked that claim against equivalent JavaScript instead of taking it on faith.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTReScriptNathan Tranquillahttps://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/5-ways-rescript-fixes-typescript/https://nathantranquilla.me/blogs/5-ways-rescript-fixes-typescript/Five concrete gaps in TypeScript's type system, and how ReScript closes each one. Sound types, no any, exhaustive matching, and what that buys you day to day.Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTReScriptNathan Tranquilla