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Writing from the workbench
Nikolas Barwicki
AI Product Engineer
I write about building products with AI, what changes when agents join the engineering team, and the lessons that only show up after shipping.
How I write with AI →Latest writing (33)
2026
Pocock's flow, Poteto's rules
A year of Matt Pocock's flow, a few weeks of Poteto, and what I kept from each
Fast voice actions with GPT-Live and Decisions
Live talks. Decisions picks. Your code acts.
I had 290 agent skills. I use six.
Global skills are habits. Everything else is project context.
How I let coding agents run for 10 hours: the setup
The human work moves to before and after the run.
Hand on the Wheel #3The right model, not the best model
Test the model on your work before paying more.
Working in public
Public GitHub activity
Last 12 months · 242 active days
Oct 2025 — Oct 2026
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