I Just Let Go
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A week with Claude Code's --dangerously-skip-permissions flag taught me that the real permission system was always the planning, rules, and hooks I'd already built.
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Notes on building dev tools, AI-assisted development, and lessons from the field.
How Planning Became the Highest-Leverage Part of Our Engineering Process
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When AI tools accelerate execution, attention becomes the bottleneck. Three levels of planning — team, personal, and implementation — preserve the cognitive budget that matters most.
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Running Out of Context: Constraints Stay Hot and Workflows Load Cold
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What happens when your Claude Code setup consumes 50% of context before you write code. How separating constraints (stay hot) from procedures (load cold) made our workflow predictable.
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What Happens After send(): Patterns in Modern Event Collection Systems
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A comparative study of production event collectors (RudderStack, Snowplow, PostHog, Lytics) followed by building eventkit—a Python event processing library—to validate whether those patterns hold under real constraints. Explores validation, sequencing, buffering, and storage through the lens of anthropology and chemistry lab discipline.
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Building SDK Kit: extracting patterns from production systems
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Over winter break, I spent two and a half weeks studying JSTag—Lytics' production data collection SDK—then extracted the infrastructure patterns that let it survive scale and third-party integrations. The thesis: production systems teach composition in a way textbooks can't. SDK Kit validates those patterns through Auth HI! and Experience SDK.
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Respecting intermediates: from chemistry lab to spec-driven development
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Having spent many years in an organic chemistry lab taught me a workflow: research the literature, respect intermediates, verify before proceeding. When I applied that same pattern to building a Chrome extension, it felt natural — and worked surprisingly well with AI tools. Deciding first, then coding, kept the hard thinking cheap and made AI an accelerant instead of a source of thrashing.
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How dev_search helps AI understand code
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The moment I knew it worked wasn't a benchmark — it was watching Claude debug. 62% faster, 42% cheaper. Here's how the search system works.
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10 days of vibe coding: what I learned building an MCP server
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A hackathon project that became something useful. Notes on building fast with AI tools.
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Those who like to build
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What my manager said in April, and what I learned testing it over the summer.
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