John Pangasest. 1997
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Notes from the workbench.

Long-form thinking on agentic AI tools, software engineering, business workflows, and the parts I'm still figuring out.

Mar 14, 2026

8 min

Prompting Matters: What 18 Months of LLM Code Generation Taught Me

A long, opinionated tour through the prompting strategies that actually move the needle when you use AI agents to reason about class-level code, and the ones that look smart on paper but quietly fail.

  • #Agentic AI
  • #Software Engineering
  • #Research
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Nov 2, 2025

6 min

Bridging Test Plans at Firefox with a Small, Boring Pipeline

How we wired an agentic GPT-4 workflow into Firefox QA without rewriting the workflow. The boring parts mattered more than the model.

  • #Mozilla
  • #Agentic AI
  • #QA
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Apr 8, 2024

5 min

Five Months Inside Bugbug

An honest retro of my Outreachy internship at Mozilla, shipping accessibility-tag and spam-detection models into the Bugzilla pipeline.

  • #Mozilla
  • #Outreachy
  • #ML
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John Pangas

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