For about a year, my primary coding agent was goose. Since I worked at Block and served as a Developer Advocate for the project, I was deeply embedded in its ecosystem. I contributed code and provided product feedback that shaped how it functioned. Then, I moved to a company called Entire that provides the infrastructure for the agentic software development lifecycle. To do my job well, I have to
Every AI app I've shipped recently rewrote the same plumbing. The OAuth dance for Slack. Encrypted storage for an API key. Refresh-token logic that finally fails on the 3rd call after an hour. Wiring up an MCP client to a server behind a bearer token someone pasted into a Notion page.