Derek Honerlaw

Recent Writing

Most of what makes a good engineer has not changed. AI just makes the gap between good and not-so-good engineers a lot wider.

AI sessions are stateless. The work is not. I built a plugin to close that gap.

How I went from using AI to write the occasional unit test to building entire products with it and reshaping how I run performance reviews.

A job search platform that crawls company job boards and uses hybrid semantic search to surface relevant positions from natural language queries.

A gentle tool to help you notice time since your last action. Track any habit, any goal, at your own pace. No judgment, just support.