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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Finding the Spark: From Breaking PCs to Building Developer Experience

How I went from breaking PCs as a kid to engineering Developer Experience, and the father who lit the spark but never got to see where it led.

  • Deep Dive · Career · Developer Experience · Origin Story · Engineering Culture
  • June 21, 2026  ·  12 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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