<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Abdulrhman Eltahir — Blog</title><description>Writing on the tools I build — developer automation, AI agents, and systems that generate systems.</description><link>https://eltahir.me/</link><managingEditor>contact@eltahir.me</managingEditor><item><title>QA that reads the database back</title><link>https://eltahir.me/blog/qa-e2e-pilot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://eltahir.me/blog/qa-e2e-pilot/</guid><description>A green screen is not a passing feature. Real QA drives the UI, then reads the persisted state back at multiplicity 0/1/N and recomputes the logic against the spec — checking the thing, not the picture of the thing.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI &amp; agents</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Quality</category><category>Testing</category><category>Verification</category></item><item><title>Implementing a spec in parallel waves</title><link>https://eltahir.me/blog/wave-pilot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://eltahir.me/blog/wave-pilot/</guid><description>A coding agent works a 12-task spec one task at a time. Most of those tasks don&apos;t depend on each other — the work is a graph, not a list. wave-pilot schedules it like one, and gates every wave on a green build.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI &amp; agents</category><category>AI agents</category><category>Orchestration</category><category>Parallelism</category><category>Build systems</category></item><item><title>The machine that builds my machine</title><link>https://eltahir.me/blog/dev-boost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://eltahir.me/blog/dev-boost/</guid><description>A new dev box used to cost me the better part of a day of yak-shaving. Now a bare Linux install becomes my exact workstation, unattended, in minutes — because the setup is a program, not a checklist.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Developer experience</category><category>Automation</category><category>Linux</category><category>Reproducibility</category><category>Tooling</category></item></channel></rss>