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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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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