Dave Kerr · dwmkerr.com

I'm a partner and Head of Engineering at QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey & Company. I've been building software for twenty years and have always been passionate about learning and sharing the craft.

books

Master the shell, from the basics through to advanced techniques.

2026 Agentic Engineering Roundup substack
2026 Fable vs My Chemical Romance Handing Fable a one-paragraph prompt and a few hours to build a home My Chemical Romance karaoke concert, and watching what it did unsupervised.
2026 Bipolar Disorder, Dysregulation & AI My AI Native DevCon London talk on what living with bipolar disorder taught me about regulation, and how those same patterns show up in AI-native engineering.
2026 Agentic Engineering Protocols: The Ralph Wiggum Loop Using the Ralph Wiggum Loop for iterative cleanup tasks at scale
2026 Agentic Engineering Protocols: Intro and Superpowers A review and summary of popular Agentic AI orchestration protocols for software development
2026 AI26 - The Anthropic Skill Supply Chain Attack A demonstration of a potential supply chain attack using Anthropic Skills, hijacking access to AWS accounts, model providers and more.
2023 A ChatGPT Extension to Create Diagrams A ChatGPT Extension to Create Diagrams

ark 400 ⭐
Agentic Runtime for Kubernetes, run agents at scale
claude-toolkit 12 ⭐
Claude Code plugins for engineering tasks
hacker-laws 27k ⭐
Laws, theories and patterns for developers
shellwright 35 ⭐
Playwright for the shell, terminal recording and automation over MCP