The first move
A friend bought a Claude Code license and still did not know where to start. This is the guide I sent him: two weeks, step by step, prompts included.
Read more →I still read the docs first
The habit is fourteen years old. Before I write requirements, I read the docs, and I leave proof of work, from a 2012 forum guide to a process I documented in my first week at a new job.
Read more →We all make slop
The AI we have access to is a well-made soup, good enough to pass. So are we. What's left is knowing which of it is slop, and saying so.
Read more →AI won't make you faster
I built a second brain in a weekend and it worked by the next morning. The speed never came from the AI. It came from the thinking I'd already done.
Read more →Who I am, and why I'm building in public now
Someone is about to ask an AI whether to trust me. After twelve hundred job applications, I learned the old way of getting hired is broken. This is who I am, why I'm building in public, and why proof beats promises in an economy run by agents.
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