Notes on AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and building software that ships.https://www.imagile.dev/en-ushttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/the-93-percent-problem/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/the-93-percent-problem/Anthropic's own telemetry shows people approve 93% of permission prompts — that's not caution, it's a reflex, and the fix is a policy you set before you're tired.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaude-codesecuritydeveloper-trainingSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/your-agents-attention-budget/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/your-agents-attention-budget/Context rot isn't a cliff a model falls off — it's a gradient, and the fix is curating what's in the window, not waiting for a collapse.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaicontext-managementagentic-aiagentic-workflowsSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/autonomy-is-a-dial-not-a-ladder/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/autonomy-is-a-dial-not-a-ladder/Chatbot, human-in-the-loop, agentic workflow, and full autonomy aren't stages you graduate through — they're positions you choose per task, and the vendors selling autonomy keep telling you not to default to it.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiagentic-aiagentic-workflowsproduct-engineeringSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/model-harness-tools/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/model-harness-tools/Model, harness, and tools are three different jobs — and the coding agent's terminal access is why it can do things a chatbot never could.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaude-codedeveloper-toolsdeveloper-trainingSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/a-spec-is-not-a-plan/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/a-spec-is-not-a-plan/Research, Plan, Implement, Verify is just the ordinary shape of software work, finally said out loud — and the spec/plan mix-up inside it is costing teams more than they realize.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiagentic-aiengineering-principlesproduct-engineeringSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/the-diff-is-the-evidence/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/the-diff-is-the-evidence/An agent can change forty files in ninety seconds and describe it in one confident sentence. That sentence is a claim, not a record — the diff is the only account of the work that nobody wrote.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaude-codeengineering-principlesdeveloper-trainingSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/blog-dry/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/blog-dry/Hunt and Thomas defined DRY as knowledge — not code. AI generates duplicated knowledge at industrial scale. The discipline hasn't changed; the surface area has.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiengineering-principlesdryllmSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/mcps-are-eating-your-context-window/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/mcps-are-eating-your-context-window/MCP servers promised to make your AI agent infinitely capable. They also made it slower, fatter, and easier to compromise. CLIs are quietly winning.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaude-codemcpsecuritydeveloper-toolsgithub-actionsSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/your-ai-agent-is-a-blender/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/your-ai-agent-is-a-blender/Every part of Claude Code maps to a part of a blender. Once you see it, you'll immediately know why your output came out wrong — and who to blame.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiclaude-codedeveloper-toolscontext-managementSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/plugin-about-yourself/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/plugin-about-yourself/Building a Claude Code skill that encodes your own voice and engineering philosophy sounds like a neat AI trick. It turns out to be the most clarifying thing you can do with your expertise — because it forces you to name what you actually think.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiengineeringknowledge-transferclaude-codementorshipSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/roles-converging-ai/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/roles-converging-ai/AI is collapsing the barriers between product, design, engineering, and DevOps. The teams that figure this out first will ship faster with fewer people — but only if taste and judgment come with the territory.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiengineeringproduct-engineeringteam-structureSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/creativity-tantamount-importance-developers/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/creativity-tantamount-importance-developers/When AI handles construction, the skill that matters isn't typing speed or syntax knowledge. It's taste.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcreativityaicollaborationsoftware-engineeringSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/ai-training-costs-not-worth-it/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/ai-training-costs-not-worth-it/By the time your team finishes an AI training program, the tools it covers have already been superseded. Here's what to do instead.Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTaideveloper-trainingagentic-aigithub-copilotclaudecontinuous-learningSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/welcome-to-imagile-blog/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/welcome-to-imagile-blog/Why I started Imagile and what this blog is going to be.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTannouncementsplatformaiSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/why-we-use-azure-and-dotnet/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/why-we-use-azure-and-dotnet/Performance, talent pool, and secretless authentication. Why we default to Azure and .NET for almost every client project.Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTazuredotnetarchitecturecloudSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/cloud-native-architecture-migration-failures/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/cloud-native-architecture-migration-failures/Cloud-native isn't an infrastructure problem. It's a development problem. Most migrations fail because they treat it like the former.Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTcloudarchitectureazuremigrationSunny Kolattukudyhttps://www.imagile.dev/blog/ai-powered-development-future/https://www.imagile.dev/blog/ai-powered-development-future/The distinction between integrating LLMs into applications and using GenAI to build applications faster — and why confusing the two costs you.Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTaimachine-learningllmgenaiSunny Kolattukudy