https://mattiaperetti.it/blog Senior backend engineer writing about backend architecture, application security, and the shift toward agentic AI systems. en-us undefined (Mattia Peretti) undefined (Mattia Peretti) Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mattiaperetti.it/blog/the-superpowers-of-a-software-engineer https://mattiaperetti.it/blog/the-superpowers-of-a-software-engineer Coding agents get better every month, and the way to stay in control is to give them clear instructions and context rather than fight the shift. This covers agent instruction file conventions worth adding to a repo (AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, CLAUDE.md, Cursor skills) and two open-source tools, Ponytail and Caveman, that cut token spend by trimming what agents write and compressing what you send. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT undefined (Mattia Peretti) aiagentic-aiclaude-codellm