a personal blog

In this article, I describe my personal journey to adopting agents and the lessons I’ve learned — as much for you as they are references for future me. I’ll share examples from my setup on a legacy project and a few bite-sized takeaways if you’re embarking on your own adoption journey. Since early 2026, I have started working almost exclusively via agentic coding1, and that’s in a legacy PHP codebase, which I had previously considered to be untouchable by agents. ...

I have always had, as many people in my profession do, the urge to own a blogging website – coupled with no actual desire to write articles or any form of content. I had no intention of writing my blog platform from scratch, because I knew that I’d never write a single article and would just be content with writing the code. I didn’t want Wordpress, because one can always install new themes or new plugins – or, God forbid, even write custom plugins. ...