Only the Hardest Parts Remain
Working with AI coding agents all day is tiring in a different way. The easy work is gone, and only the abstract problems are left.
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I'm Bullish on Google AI
The endless OpenAI/Anthropic drama carousel distracts from how Google might be the big winner of the AI race.
AI Empathy
Machine empathy made great engineers. AI empathy might reward a completely different kind of mind.
Advice for Juniors in the Age of AI
There's a lot of despair from engineers at the start of their careers right now. I think there's plenty of opportunity, if you understand a few things.
Free 10GB+ by Disabling Claude Desktop's VM
If you use Claude Desktop for chat but not Cowork, you can reclaim 10GB+ of disk space by deleting the VM bundles and disabling the feature in config.
New Claude
Claude 4.7 is the AI equivalent of "New Coke." Something in its core recipe changed and broke the experience.
Turbo ADHD
The default AI coding workflow is TURBO ADHD. Thinking feels underrated in 2026.
AI Behavioral Nudges and Stacked PRs
A hook that nags Claude to commit when it has finished a logical unit of work
My Latest CLAUDE.md for Typescript
Good practices for dealing with Claude 4.7
Everything Old Is New Again
AI coding agents are bringing back waterfall design, TDD, and CLIs.
The Data Center Panic
Big, scary numbers without context are powering a wave of fear about boring suburban warehouses.
Structured Research
A new approach to AI-powered research that's auditable, flexible, and hallucination-free
BuiltWith API v3 — Monorepo, MCP Server, and CLI
Major rewrite of my BuiltWith API wrapper with a new MCP server and CLI
Designing CLIs that Agents Want to Use
Lessons from building Spotify CLI
Reality is a Game of Trial and Error
An Ongoing Autobiography
Is AI an Equalizer?
Teaching taste, junior developers, and keeping up with AI
check-for-api-keys
A TypeScript CLI tool for scanning directories to detect potential API keys and sensitive information
magic-diff
A command-line tool to generate commit messages with AI
Fetch MCP
A TypeScript-based MCP server for fetching web content in various formats
Markdownify MCP Server
A TypeScript-based MCP server for converting various file types to Markdown