Hello, I'm James Newton.
I'm a software engineer at Mark OS who thinks a lot about how we build things and why. This is where I write about the craft — the tools, the trade-offs, and the quiet decisions that shape what we make.
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Another Terminal Markdown Reader
Since the release of Claude mods, I’ve been leaning more into building tools that help me do better work with agents. I still spend the majority of my time using Claude directly, so mods were a…
Listened to Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Listened to Dark Age by Pierce Brown
Navigating the New Software Development Paradigm
At Shopify we notably had an early mandate to use AI, and towards the end of my time there my adoption of AI was progressing, but was focused on AI-assisted programming: Using the Copilot…
Listened to Dracula by Bram Stoker