https://usewick.net/blog notes on how wick gets a job from one prompt to one pull request, and why it refuses the things it refuses. en Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-use-coding-agents-overnight https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-use-coding-agents-overnight Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick A practical way to give a coding agent work for the night, with a clear finish line, safe boundaries and a pull request you can review in the morning. https://usewick.net/blog/coding-agent-vs-ai-code-completion https://usewick.net/blog/coding-agent-vs-ai-code-completion Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick AI completion helps with the next line. A coding agent can investigate, edit, test and prepare a pull request. Here is when each is useful. https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-review-ai-generated-code https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-review-ai-generated-code Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick A practical review sequence for AI-generated pull requests: read the goal, inspect the risky seams, verify the checks and exercise the changed behaviour. https://usewick.net/blog/agents-md-practical-template https://usewick.net/blog/agents-md-practical-template Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick Use AGENTS.md to give coding agents the commands, boundaries and repository facts they cannot safely infer. Keep it short enough to stay true. https://usewick.net/blog/autonomous-coding-agents https://usewick.net/blog/autonomous-coding-agents Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick Autonomous coding agents are most useful when they can plan, build, test and review a bounded job while keeping product decisions and the final merge with you. https://usewick.net/blog/burst-and-sunrise https://usewick.net/blog/burst-and-sunrise Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT wick Burst for the task you want moving now. Sunrise for work you leave running. Both start in your usual coding app and end at a reviewed pull request. https://usewick.net/blog/what-self-improving-coding-means https://usewick.net/blog/what-self-improving-coding-means Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT wick A correction should survive the chat where you made it. Here is what Wick can remember for the next task, and what that does not prove. https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-write-a-brief-for-a-coding-agent https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-write-a-brief-for-a-coding-agent Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick give a coding agent a problem it can reproduce, a boundary it can respect and an answer it can check. the brief should survive the first handover. https://usewick.net/blog/run-coding-agents-in-parallel-without-conflicts https://usewick.net/blog/run-coding-agents-in-parallel-without-conflicts Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick separate worktrees protect files. clear ownership protects the change. decide where agents can work together before they start editing the same seam. https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-review-an-ai-generated-pull-request https://usewick.net/blog/how-to-review-an-ai-generated-pull-request Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick read the goal beside the diff, check what actually ran and inspect the failure path. an ai-written summary is a starting point for review. https://usewick.net/blog/a-green-test-suite-never-opened-the-page https://usewick.net/blog/a-green-test-suite-never-opened-the-page Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick passing tests prove the cases they exercise. a browser check follows the person through the feature, including the part where they try again. https://usewick.net/blog/what-to-put-in-agents-md https://usewick.net/blog/what-to-put-in-agents-md Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wick give the next coding agent the commands and boundaries it cannot safely guess. keep repository instructions short enough to maintain when the repo changes. https://usewick.net/blog/why-wick-stops-at-the-pull-request https://usewick.net/blog/why-wick-stops-at-the-pull-request Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT wick wick merges its own pull requests. give it a merge grant and it merges on its own the moment the checks and a clean review say so, or tell your agent to merge it. https://usewick.net/blog/the-reviewer-is-never-the-author https://usewick.net/blog/the-reviewer-is-never-the-author Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT wick once the gate goes green, an agent that did not write the change reads it and pins each finding to a line. it never hands you a verdict. https://usewick.net/blog/loop-until-it-holds https://usewick.net/blog/loop-until-it-holds Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT wick nothing wick builds reaches you until it passes a gate. this is what the gate checks, and how it got fast enough to run after every stage. https://usewick.net/blog/what-your-repository-remembers https://usewick.net/blog/what-your-repository-remembers Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT wick every agent wick starts is a fresh session. what carries over is a ledger of things that actually happened in your repository, each with the commit it happened at.