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Notes on agentic developer platforms, MCP, evals, and what makes AI coding tools ship inside large engineering orgs.

31 posts

Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor (and Why It Doesn't Matter)
Opinions & Analysis9 min read

Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor (and Why It Doesn't Matter)

The honest Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor comparison — and why your AI platform strategy matters far more than which coding agent you pick this quarter.

Beat Developer Burnout with AI-Powered Task Scoping
Problem & Solution6 min read

Beat Developer Burnout with AI-Powered Task Scoping

Stop drowning in task management. Learn how AI agents can automatically scope your work, research approaches, and maintain a stress-free pipeline.

Escape AI Platform Lock-In with a Portable CLI Toolkit
Tutorials & How-Tos4 min read

Escape AI Platform Lock-In with a Portable CLI Toolkit

Stop rebuilding AI tools for every platform. Build a portable CLI toolkit with centralized config that works with Claude Code, Cursor, or any agent.

Build Your Own Voice Assistant: Escape Alexa and Google
Tutorials & How-Tos7 min read

Build Your Own Voice Assistant: Escape Alexa and Google

Tired of creepy always-listening devices? Build your own private voice assistant with local wake words, any LLM, and custom Python tools on a Mac Mini.

Adding Eyes to Your AI Workflows with Gemini
Tutorials & How-Tos5 min read

Adding Eyes to Your AI Workflows with Gemini

Use Gemini's overlooked image detection features to find objects, extract precise bounding box coordinates, and build truly context-aware AI applications.

AI Content Pipelines: From Text Prompts to Images and Video
Tutorials & How-Tos4 min read

AI Content Pipelines: From Text Prompts to Images and Video

Build automated content pipelines using Claude Code skills and OpenAI APIs. Generate character images, convert to Discord emojis, and animate with Sora.

2025: The Year AI Development Grew Up
Opinions & Analysis9 min read

2025: The Year AI Development Grew Up

From reasoning models to agentic CLIs, 2025 transformed how we work with AI. The timeline of our shift from model-centric to agent-centric development.

Skills: One Agent Toolbox That Ends MCP Micromanagement
Guides & Fundamentals7 min read

Skills: One Agent Toolbox That Ends MCP Micromanagement

Stop juggling MCPs across projects. Claude Code Skills let you build one universal toolbox that travels everywhere with zero context overhead until needed.

Why I Stopped Reading AI's Code: Visual Proof Instead
Tutorials & How-Tos5 min read

Why I Stopped Reading AI's Code: Visual Proof Instead

Build review agents that prove AI code works using Playwright screenshots, video recordings, and visual diffs rather than manually reviewing each line.

AI-Powered Bullet Journaling with Claude Code
Tutorials & How-Tos8 min read

AI-Powered Bullet Journaling with Claude Code

Transform bullet journaling into an AI-assisted productivity system that adapts to your mental state, helps you recover from setbacks, and removes shame.

AI Sandbox Environments: Safe AI Code Execution
Tutorials & How-Tos4 min read

AI Sandbox Environments: Safe AI Code Execution

Move past rm -rf nightmares by running AI-generated code in isolated sandbox environments. Learn how e2b.dev enables safe, parallelized development workflows.

AI Security Workflows: Automated Vulnerability Management
Tutorials & How-Tos5 min read

AI Security Workflows: Automated Vulnerability Management

Turn security from a reactive burden into an automated pipeline. Use Claude Code's security review and package audits to build self-healing codebases.

Building Reliable AI Workflows: How to Handle Millions of Agent Iterations
Tutorials & How-Tos6 min read

Building Reliable AI Workflows: How to Handle Millions of Agent Iterations

Learn how to engineer robust AI agent systems that scale to millions of iterations through state isolation, validation gates, and parallel consensus patterns.

Prompting is Everything: The One Skill You Need to Master AI
Guides & Fundamentals6 min read

Prompting is Everything: The One Skill You Need to Master AI

One piece of advice for getting started with AI engineering: master prompting. Learn why the prompt is the foundation of everything you build with LLMs.

Skills Over MCPs: Context-Efficient Agent Capabilities
Tutorials & How-Tos6 min read

Skills Over MCPs: Context-Efficient Agent Capabilities

Claude Code Skills provide MCP-like capabilities with zero context overhead. Scale to thousands of tools without bloating your agent's context window.

4 Claude Code Primitives: Commands, MCPs, Subagents, Skills
Guides & Fundamentals7 min read

4 Claude Code Primitives: Commands, MCPs, Subagents, Skills

Master Claude Code's four primitives—slash commands, MCPs, subagents, and skills. Learn when to use each one and how to compose them into powerful workflows.