Life in Production

I Refactored My AI's Toolbox

If you use an AI coding agent daily, you have a toolbox of prompts and commands you've never once cleaned up. Here's the refactor, how to spot when yours needs it, and what happens when a tool outgrows the repo.

Quick Read · How To · AI · Developer Experience · Engineering Culture
September 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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The Org Chart in My Terminal

My terminal has an org chart now. Fable does judgment, Opus ships, Sonnet handles the small stuff, Haiku does the summaries, and the cover art is outsourced.

Quick Read · AI · Claude Code · Developer Experience · Engineering Management
August 19, 2026 · 4 min read
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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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Nobody Asked for Flawless

The more senior you get, the higher your bar for 'good enough' quietly climbs, until it lands on flawless. But nobody asked for flawless. They asked for something that works.

Quick Read · Engineering Culture · Tech Culture · Career · Mental Models
July 8, 2026 · 6 min read
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The BMW 316i M-Powered: Flashy Badges, Broken Engines

Why overextended expats buy luxury status symbols and dying companies sign nine-figure software contracts. An exploration of the same broken architecture playing out at human scale and corporate scale.

Deep Dive · Tech Culture · Software Architecture · Business Strategy · GCC · Levant · Engineering Culture
July 5, 2026 · 7 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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