Maggie Appleton

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Designer, anthropologist, and developer. Staff Research Engineer at GitHub Next exploring how AI changes software engineering.

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Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

by maggie-appleton

When agents handle code generation at scale, design and architectural planning become the bottleneck—implementation velocity no longer constrains development.

ai-agents ai-tools developer-experience software-architectureJan 23, 2026

Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers

by maggie-appleton

Language models will enable a new class of 'barefoot developers'—technically savvy non-programmers who build small-scale, personal software for their communities, and local-first should position itself as the default infrastructure before cloud platforms lock them in.

local-first ai-tools developer-experience end-user-programming philosophyJan 4, 2026