The Gates Are the Product
I let an AI run a music and film studio for a month: render, master, verify, repeat. It mostly worked. Everything that went wrong went wrong the same way: a number that was not measuring what I thought it measured.
Claude Code
Posts about using Claude Code day to day, from code review to running agents across many repositories.
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How I Use AI as a Senior Engineer: Where the Day Actually Goes
Not a tools list. The tools keep changing; what changed underneath is where the hours go: specs in the morning, batch review in the afternoon, and the judgment work that never left.
My AI Code Review Workflow: Review the Change, Not the Typing
The code got cheap. The review did not. Here is the review workflow I actually use when AI agents write most of the diff: three passes, an adversarial second agent, and the discipline of reading what ships.
The AI-Assisted Engineering HOWTO
A manual for building software with an AI agent: the setup, the loop, context management, and the Claude Code and Copilot commands I use every day. Written like the old Linux HOWTOs.
I Rebuilt This Whole Site in Agent Mode
This site was rebuilt from scratch by directing an AI agent, then migrated off cPanel onto AWS S3 and CloudFront. Here is what that actually looked like, the parts that worked, and the day a deploy script quietly deleted production.
What Is Autonomous Mode? And When to Actually Trust It
Autonomous mode is when the agent runs the whole loop without you in each step: plan, act, check, repeat, until done or stuck. How it differs from agent mode, and where the risk lives.
Claude vs Copilot for DevOps: A Practitioner's Comparison
I use GitHub Copilot at work and the Claude Code CLI at home, every day. Here is the firsthand comparison for DevOps and infrastructure work, from someone who ships with both, in the context each one actually lives in.
What Is Agent Mode? A Working Engineer's Definition
Agent mode is when you stop typing code and direct an AI that reads your codebase, writes the change, runs the tests and reports back. How it differs from autocomplete and chat, the loop, and when to use it.
Chapter 4: Agent Mode (The Way That Works)
I don't think in fragments. I don't think in lines. I think in systems. In architectures. In complete solutions to complete problems. So I stopped fighting autocomplete and found what actually works: agent mode.