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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.
Latest writing (31)
2026
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.
Waiting for cheap AI to end
Today's losses don't settle tomorrow's AI prices.
Don't ask stakeholders what they want. Make them click something
A prototype's job isn't to look finished - it's to give people something to disagree on
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Last 12 months · 233 active days
Oct 2025 — Oct 2026
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