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Software architect, 20 years in production systems. Building with AI, writing about what I ship.

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Slow Agents and Spare Tokens: Building an Investing Agent That Optimizes for Being Right

My stock-research agent evaluates one company at a time, fans out a dozen subagents to verify every claim, and runs only when I have spare tokens to burn. Slow by every metric that matters for an agent — which is exactly why I trust it. How it is built, and the first stock it picked.

Optimizing Claude Code: Skills, Plugins, and the Art of Teaching Your AI to Code Like You

Customize Claude Code with skills, plugins, commands, and configuration files that transform a capable coding assistant into one that matches your exact workflow.

Setting Up An API Subdomain - Solving CORS Issues and Production AI Reliability

How I fixed intermittent CORS failures and timeout issues in my AI tools by setting up a custom API subdomain and migrating from free to paid AI providers.

Building Ask Warren: A Production RAG System with 47 Years of Investment Wisdom

How I built a retrieval-augmented generation system that lets you chat with Warren Buffett's shareholder letters - to understand RAG trade-offs in production.

Building an AI Resume-to-Startup Idea Generator with Claude Code

How I built a complete AI-powered web application using agentic coding - from concept to production in hours, not days.

Coding with AI - High Leverage LLM Techniques

Unlock the full potential of your coding workflow by mastering high-leverage techniques with AI.

Raising Children Before Memory

Right now, my daughters won't remember any of these early years—their first steps, first words, the little moments we share each day. But this time is still critical. This is when their Self is formed, and each interaction is helping shape that inner voice they'll carry through life.

Catastrophic Financial Risks

Catastrophic risks, though rare, can devastate our financial stability. Learn how to safeguard against them.

529 Accounts Make Sense Now

529 accounts have gone from good to great since you can transfer the balance to a Roth IRA.

Goals Are For Losers

Most successful people don't set goals. Instead, they create systems that lead to success through consistent action rather than targeting specific endpoints.

Why Financial Independence?

Financial independence isn't about money—it's about freedom. Break the cycle of trading your life for just enough to survive.