Articles and practical notes from building software.
I kept trying to write better prompts. Then I read about harness engineering and realized the leverage isn't in the prompt — it's in the structure around it.
Ninety minutes before the kids wake up isn't much — but plan the week, forgive the day, and count small wins, and it's enough to ship.
I let AI write my tests and paid for it. Here's how a few gold-standard references turned AI from liability into a reliable pair.
I almost burned my side-project hours on a VPS I didn't need. Now I have a simple checklist to tell exploration from progress.
A board-gaming community needed a tool, I built one, 1,700 people used it — and I rediscovered the confidence to ship on my own.