Alex Manarpies

Hi! 👋🏽 I’m a senior product engineer specialized mobile and tv experiences, with a special interest in agentic engineering.

Highlights

I gave Claude a Simplified Technical English skill to make its dense technical answers harder to misunderstand.

An AI agent learns that passing tests is not the same as working when it cannot perceive what the user can.

git-delta gives lazygit syntax-highlighted diffs. Getting it right in a light terminal takes more flags than you’d expect.

SwiftUI’s onExitCommand modifier silently fails when nothing in your view is focusable. Here’s the workaround Apple forgot to document.

Smart chicken coop door plagued by battery drain bugs. After 7 firmware updates in 18 months, I disabled WiFi and went back to basics 🐔