# Rob Byrne's blog

> Notes on AI agents, developer tooling, delivery and engineering culture from Rob Byrne, a software craftsman in Vancouver, BC.

Author: Robert Byrne (https://leanrob.com). Full text of every post: https://blog.leanrob.com/llms-full.txt. Set up the MCP server in your AI tools: https://blog.leanrob.com/ai/.

## Blog

Rob Byrne's blog: https://blog.leanrob.com/ (RSS: https://blog.leanrob.com/rss.xml). Every post is also available as raw markdown (linked below) and through the MCP server at https://mcp.leanrob.com/mcp (tools: list_posts, search_posts, get_post, get_post_code_snippets, list_tags).

- [How I Plan My Week on Sunday](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/how-i-plan-my-week-on-sunday/): Friday closes the week. Sunday sets up the next one. Here's how I turn leftovers and a few big goals into a calendar my agents can work from. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/how-i-plan-my-week-on-sunday.md
- [The weekly close out](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/how-i-close-out-my-week/): Most weeks don't end, they just stop. Here's the Friday routine I use to close the week on purpose, including a career lens and handing work to AI agents for the weekend. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/how-i-close-out-my-week.md
- [Show me your calendar and I'll show you how productive you are](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/show-me-your-calendar/): Learning used to come easy, until it didn't. Teaching myself how to learn was the first fix; as a professional the problem became where the hours go, and the calendar is the answer. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/show-me-your-calendar.md
- [Choosing the right AI coding harness for your workflow](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/choosing-the-right-ai-coding-harness-for-your-workflow/): Claude Code, Codex and Cursor; Pi, Hermes, OpenCode and Kandev; and Grok Bot as a coordinator above them. How the main AI coding harnesses differ, and why I match the tool to the job instead of crowning one winner. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/choosing-the-right-ai-coding-harness-for-your-workflow.md
- [Strategic overcommitment: when going all-in can build your career base](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/strategic-overcommitment/): My personal take on when it can be worth going all-in for a while as an engineer, how to tell real creative momentum from pressure, and how to keep the push from tipping into burnout. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/strategic-overcommitment.md
- [Animation with intent: using motion well without overdoing it](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/animation-with-intent/): What animation is actually for (feedback, continuity, orientation and a little delight), how to do it well with CSS and the View Transitions API, and a checklist for spotting motion that should be cut. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/animation-with-intent.md
- [Meta-planning: from baseline to phased agent workspaces](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/meta-planning-from-baseline-to-phased-agent-workspaces/): A layered workflow for high-stakes delivery with AI agents: a human-gated meta-plan, testable phases with focused prompts, isolated workspaces, a staff-level readiness pass, then deliberate execution one phase at a time. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/meta-planning-from-baseline-to-phased-agent-workspaces.md
- [Multi-cadence delivery: partial validation when the UI outruns the API](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/multi-cadence-delivery-partial-validation-enterprise-boundaries/): When app and platform teams ship at different speeds, POs and QA get squeezed between partial surfaces and full acceptance. Here is how to name the failure modes, shrink the gap where you can, and handle the enterprise seam honestly. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/multi-cadence-delivery-partial-validation-enterprise-boundaries.md
- [Beyond the build: adoption and developer culture](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/beyond-the-build-adoption/): A practical guide to driving organization-wide engineering change, from planning and consensus to implementation, evangelism, and what breaks when you skip a step. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/beyond-the-build-adoption.md
- [The quiet win of regular syncs outside your usual lane](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/the-quiet-win-of-regular-syncs-outside-your-usual-lane/): Why a small recurring cadence with product, design, or peers in another part of engineering (and with mentors or mentees) beats hoping alignment happens in Slack, and how to show up as a person, not only a role. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/the-quiet-win-of-regular-syncs-outside-your-usual-lane.md
- [Why this blog](https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/welcome/): What this site is for, what I’ve learned along the way, and what you can expect to read here. Markdown: https://blog.leanrob.com/posts/welcome.md