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.

projects

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

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

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
2023 Semantic Versioning, Conventional Commits and Release Pull Requests for .NET with Google's Release Please Project Learn how to use the excellent 'release-please' tool to automate release management in .NET projects