Life in Production

I Promoted My AI

From ordering Claude around like a code monkey to running real refinement sessions with it. The three things I changed.

  • Quick Read · AI · Developer Experience · Claude Code · Productivity
  • July 15, 2026  ·  5 min read
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It Compiled. It Was Still Wrong.

AI can write the code, the tests, and the commit message. It can't tell you your font is exhausting the reader you forgot to picture. Knowing who the work is good for was always the job, and it still is.

  • Quick Read · AI · Developer Experience · Engineering Culture · Mental Models
  • July 1, 2026  ·  5 min read
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The Cult of Complexity: From Internet Cafes to AI Chatbots

An architectural critique of herd mentality and local hubris. Tracking how the cultural stigma of 'ready-made' assets mutates from empty 90s internet cafes and stripped Mercedes sensors straight into insecure 'custom' codebases and modern AI chatbot loops.

  • Deep Dive · Tech Culture · Software Architecture · AI · Business Strategy · Engineering Culture
  • June 28, 2026  ·  12 min read
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Your AI Is a Fortune Teller

It doesn't tell you the truth. It tells you what you came to hear. The danger was never the AI. It was the access policy built around it, and the context you fed it.

  • Quick Read · AI · Engineering · Mental Models · Bias
  • June 24, 2026  ·  6 min read
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Four Years and One Afternoon

My personal site sat almost frozen for four years. Changing a profile picture took three commits and two merges. Then I opened one conversation with Claude, and in an afternoon it became a different site.

  • Deep Dive · AI · Developer Experience · Claude · Web
  • June 18, 2026  ·  9 min read
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