https://alexgorischek.com Alex Gorischek's site https://alexgorischek.com/posts/enter-facilities Wherein software engineering is no longer engineering software Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/patching-agent-shortcomings As organizations become dependent on agentic systems, knowledge work becomes fixing things that agents get wrong Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/return-engineering What we craft in the age of coding agents Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/tests-for-coding-agents A prototype for agentic task test automation Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/mad-libs-style-prompts-for-more-imaginative-llms How to use fill-in-the-blank placeholders to get more creative and varied responses from large language models Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/may-i-ask-whos-speaking Exploring the patterns of agency and attribution in user interface string design, from third-person product agency to embodied conversational agents Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/where-do-we-go-after-git A speculative look at what might come after Git, exploring how version control could evolve to be more connected, always moving, and socially present Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/introducing-the-teledo A tongue-in-cheek proposal to rename the smartphone to better reflect what it actually does: give data at a distance Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/the-infinite-meta-of-digital-folders How the prefix “meta” evolved from a simple Greek word meaning “after” to represent the self-referential recursion that powers digital computing Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://alexgorischek.com/posts/technically-tech-is-technology Tracing the etymology of “tech” back to its Greek roots reveals that technology is simply the physical manifestation of human skill Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT