Henry Dowling's Blog https://henrydowling.com/blog.html Blog posts by Henry Dowling en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Techniques to improve coding agent velocity https://henrydowling.com/agent-velocity.html A grab bag of techniques to improve engineering velocity with coding agents: sharing transcripts, removing blockers to autonomy, and automatically auditing production transcripts. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://henrydowling.com/agent-velocity.html How does Git decide when there's a merge conflict? https://henrydowling.com/git-merge-conflicts.html An intuitive explanation of Git's merge behavior: three-way merges, hunks, and how overlapping patches produce conflicts. Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://henrydowling.com/git-merge-conflicts.html Autocomplete everywhere that reads your mind https://henrydowling.com/autocomplete.html Building system-wide contextual autocomplete for macOS using accessibility tools and clipboard hijacking. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://henrydowling.com/autocomplete.html What happens to consumer AI when models stop getting smarter? https://henrydowling.com/background-context.html On the role of background context when models stop improving; a case for a personal AI memory store. Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://henrydowling.com/background-context.html No code got the problem right and the solution wrong https://henrydowling.com/no.html Thoughts on no-coding and vibe-coding. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://henrydowling.com/no.html