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Dave Hulbert

@dave.engineer
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Principal Engineer at Passenger in Bournemouth, UK. 🧪🧑‍💻🤖🚀

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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 26/01/2026
I'm convinced that the most important skill you can have for using AI agents is... delegation. It's almost exactly the same skill set as delegating to people. Maybe the main difference is that AI is trained not to need incentives. Are we all becoming managers now? Should we read HBR instead of HN?
- articulating goals, requirements and scope
- giving clear feedback
- decomposing tasks so they don't overlap for multiple workers
- allocating limited resources to agents
- understanding their capabilities and shortcomings
- giving appropriate tools
- delegating access and authority
- sharing the right details without explaining everything
- knowing what to trust when you can't see the details
- judging based on outcomes
- steering them when they know things you don't
- creatively making use of their expertise, even when it goes beyond your own
- juggling and context switching when delegating many tasks
- handling feedback when your instructions or assumptions were flawed
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 13/01/2026
Claude Code's "Skills" are too static, so I implemented a way to inject dynamic context into coding agents in an extensible way. Might sound clever but it's so simple that I'm surprised it's not a common approach. dave.engineer/blog/2026/01...
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Giving coding agents situational awareness (from shell prompts to agent prompts)
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 08/12/2025
Have you ever had a massive JSON file that you wanted to understand the structure of, but it was too big for an LLM, so you wanted to dedupe similar JSONPath nodes to make it simpler, but there wasn't an easy way to do it? Now there is: tools.dave.engineer/tools/json-s... 100% local & private.
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JSON Dedupe & Simplify
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 08/12/2025
Have you ever wanted to share your VSCode #Copilot chat session with someone, to show what prompts you used? Or wanted to see details of what Copilot is up to under the hood? Now you can: tools.dave.engineer/tools/copilo... 100% local and browser based, so your data never leaves your system.
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Copilot Session Viewer
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 02/12/2025
I made a tiny macOS utility to control your mouse pointer with the keyboard. Download and code: github.com/dave1010/Asd... Quick write up: dave.engineer/blog/2025/12...
Stylised mockup of the Asdfghjkl tool
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 24/11/2025
1/ Claude Opus 4.5 dropped today. The benchmarks are interesting but the real story is in the 150-page system card. A few highlights 👇
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 01/11/2025
I made a tool that lets you use Claude Skills with any coding agent: dave.engineer/blog/2025/11... Set it up as a GitHub action in 2 minutes: github.com/dave1010/ski...
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From Skills to Agents: Bridging Claude Skills and AGENTS.md
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 19/11/2024
Today I gave one of the most challenging talks I’ve ever done: Post-Quantum Cryptography. Explaining enough of the basics of cryptography and quantum mechanics to show why this matters, all in just an hour, was much harder than I thought it would be.
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 19/11/2024
Ed Balls
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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 19/11/2024
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