https://krackedtools.dev/ Writing by Hendrik Krack on AI code review, developer tools, and climate-aware engineering. en-us Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://krackedtools.dev/posts/the-merge-cua-can-your-agent-finish-the-job.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/the-merge-cua-can-your-agent-finish-the-job.html Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Cua AI co-founder Francesco Bonacci explains why developers need to check whether AI agents finish the job, even when the tools they use work correctly. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/claude-opus-5-5-for-code-review.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/claude-opus-5-5-for-code-review.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We tested Claude Opus 5.5 against CodeRabbit's production reviewer to see which bugs it catches, which it misses, and what higher reasoning effort changes. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/software-factory-review-gate.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/software-factory-review-gate.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why agent-driven delivery still needs a visible, risk-based gate before code ships. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/the-last-software-engineer-knows-what-to-build.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/the-last-software-engineer-knows-what-to-build.html Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Kent C. Dodds explains why knowing what to build, understanding the system, and owning outcomes matter as AI agents take on implementation. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/the-merge-why-building-ai-chat-is-harder-than-it-looks.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/the-merge-why-building-ai-chat-is-harder-than-it-looks.html Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A conversation with Assistant UI founder Simon Farshid about the hidden work behind AI chat interfaces, product judgment, and his coding-agent loop with CodeRabbit. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/coderabbit-cli-0-7-1-performance-and-reliability.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/coderabbit-cli-0-7-1-performance-and-reliability.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 CodeRabbit CLI 0.7.1 brings faster local reviews, configuration validation, safer agent authentication, and CodeRabbit Skills for coding-agent workflows. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/opus-5-for-code-review.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/opus-5-for-code-review.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Opus 5 produced CodeRabbit's cleanest actionable-comment stream, but caught fewer known issues and generated roughly four times the baseline's nitpicks. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/building-an-effective-code-review-harness.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/building-an-effective-code-review-harness.html Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What goes inside the system that wraps the model: the twelve harness primitives, a code-review agent as the worked example, and which SDK to reach for when you build one. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/loop-engineering-when-is-it-worth-the-hassle.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/loop-engineering-when-is-it-worth-the-hassle.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why everyone seemingly can't stop talking about loops, what the new primitives are, when it makes sense to build one, and how you'd go about it. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/what-ai-code-reviewers-catch-and-what-they-still-miss.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/what-ai-code-reviewers-catch-and-what-they-still-miss.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A frank account of where AI code review earns its keep, where it quietly fails, and how to close the gap. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/why-building-your-own-benchmark-will-get-you-ahead.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/why-building-your-own-benchmark-will-get-you-ahead.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Public benchmarks won't tell you whether your AI feature is good enough to ship. A practical three-stage guide to building your own evals. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/a-field-guide-to-pre-merge-checks.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/a-field-guide-to-pre-merge-checks.html Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What pre-merge checks are, how to stack them without slowing teams down, and the one check everyone skips. https://krackedtools.dev/posts/carbon-aware-ci-greener-pipelines-same-merge-speed.html https://krackedtools.dev/posts/carbon-aware-ci-greener-pipelines-same-merge-speed.html Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 How to shift CI pipelines to lower-carbon windows without making developers wait longer to merge.