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Some reflections on my experience with LLMs and the AI landscape

No predictions, just a perspective from 25 years in tech, treating AI as another platform shift and a tool

Prompts Are Not Workflows: rewriting Deep Research

Why I rewrote 2,000 lines of prompt into 6,000 lines of Python, and why the models getting better made it more urgent, not less

Claude Code Ate My Repo

How a race condition between AI sessions silently deleted 876 files

From Permission Hell to safe YOLO Mode

Containerizing Claude Code for autonomous, anxiety-free coding

How I built my deep-research skill

Eight Phases, Three Failures, and the Architecture of Trust

Thoughts and lessons learned from Going All-In with Claude Code

Focus on one thing and then iterate and refine and then iterate and refine some more.

On the Path to Autonomous Agents: Research Is the DIFFerence

What you don't already know is what you care about

On the Path to Autonomous Agents: Memory and Self-Learning

If we want useful agents we need to figure out a memory system

Output Styles: Claude Code's Hidden Feature for Non-Coding Work

Try it out and see the difference from a command or skill

I Built an AI Thinking Partner Because Critical Thinking is hard

100+ decisions a day and yet no school formally teaches how to think critically, isn't that absurd?