https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/Recent content on C ShellsHugoen-GBSat, 26 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0100https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/2026/questions-we-couldnt-afford/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0100https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/2026/questions-we-couldnt-afford/Most talk about models is about writing more code, sooner. The bigger change is that answers which used to cost days now cost an hour, and in an agency that changes what good work looks like.https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/2026/models-are-dependencies/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/2026/models-are-dependencies/We pin every package in the repo, then hand a large share of our work to a model we know only by reputation. What it would take to know it properly.https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://cshellsbytheseashore.dev/about/<p>I&rsquo;m Owain Brown, an engineering manager at a digital agency in the North East of England. I lead a mobile team working in Swift, Kotlin and Flutter, and I still write a fair amount of the code.</p> <p>C Shells is where I think out loud about building apps and the tools around them, which these days means a lot about AI. The name is a pun on &ldquo;sea shells by the sea shore&rdquo; and the C shell. I write from Seaham, which is where the lighthouse in the header lives.</p>