Jon Walls

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Agentic Coding

A practical guide to getting the most from AI coding agents — from project configuration and planning through implementation, testing, and CI/CD automation.

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CC Menu Bar: Monitor App for Claude Code

I built a native macOS app that lives in your menu bar and gives you a live view of your Claude Code sessions, statistics, and projects.

17 May 2026 · Projects

29 Jul 2026

Making AIsides

What an AIside is, why I keep them, and how they get from an agentic coding session to this blog.

23 Jul 2026

Benefits (and weaknesses) of agentic coding for new products

A reflection on building Mock Machines solo in a couple of months with agentic coding — the productivity that made it possible, the technical debt and expectation problems it created, and where both the agents and the developer still need to improve.

22 Jul 2026

What a couple of months and 427,515 lines of agentic coding gets you

The raw numbers behind Mock Machines — a real simulation product built solo with agentic coding in the couple of months after Rill Data let its commercial team go.

21 Jul 2026

Challenges of creating compelling pitches and prototypes

Why tailored demos still decide B2B deals in the AI age — and how combining LLMs with a simulation engine lets go-to-market teams build deep, credible prototypes in hours rather than weeks.

AIside

6 Jun 2026

When LLM Code Reviewers Find Issues and Then Bury Them

Research notes on review agents that correctly identify a real problem, then construct a plausible reason to drop it before it reaches the final summary.

AIside

24 May 2026

Devcontainer Comparison: Anthropic Reference vs. ai-capabilities

A side-by-side comparison of Anthropic's reference devcontainer for Claude Code against a Docker Compose sandbox using a proxy sidecar instead of an in-container firewall.

AIside

16 May 2026

Why AI Agents Rationalise Inaction: Omission Bias, Status Quo Bias, and Sycophantic Framing

Research notes on why coding agents default to doing nothing when an instruction looks ambiguous — omission bias, status quo bias, defensive refusal, and sycophantic framing.

AIside

12 Apr 2026

Why Claude Deflects Instead of Investigating

Notes from a coding session where Claude defended a documented workaround twice before tracing the real problem, and the sycophancy research that maps onto it.

Career

AI // Code // Data 2022 - 2026 Retool Rill Data Modern Data Stack 2017 - 2021 Google Looker IT Financial Management 2011 - 2017 Apptio Upland Software Cloud Cruiser Service Management 2001 - 2010 HP Software (now MicroFocus) Performance Management Service Management Project Portfolio Management MBA Hewlett-Packard Acquired by HP Startup #1 Trinagy (Sales Engineer)