Tony Tang, AI writes the code. Engineering makes it work.
One-minute lessons on the practices that make AI-written code safe to ship.
10 years · Head of Engineering @ Fonts Ninja · ex-Lead @ Planity
Videos
All videos →One-minute Shorts on TypeScript, Effect, caching and building with AI: short series to watch in order, and quick takes on the news.
Brakes: coding with AI agents · 3Don't prompt it. Show it a failing test.
Nov 10, 20261,122 passwords public on GitHub, because of one button
Brakes: coding with AI agents · 2Your agent called a method that doesn't exist
Brakes: coding with AI agents · 1Ten times faster at writing bugs
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Learn Effect
Effect gives TypeScript the structure that makes AI-written code hold up, in a narrated, animated-code course where you watch the code build itself and hear why each move earns its place.
Writing
All articles →Featured essay
Your best practices are suggestions. Effect makes them law.
Agents copy whatever your codebase already does, and convention can't stop them. I went deep enough on Effect to build a course on it. Here's why the compiler is the reviewer you actually need.
Right now I'm taking my team AI-first, and writing down what actually works. If that's your world too…
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Bring me something you're scaling, an AI workflow that isn't pulling its weight yet, or a type you can't make behave: I read everything.