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IT pro by day, music producer by night. I write no-fluff guides on AI coding tools — Claude Code, Cursor, AI agents — based on real daily use.

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Claude Code Said It Ran the Tests. Its Telemetry Shows What Ran

Claude Code Said It Ran the Tests. Its Telemetry Shows What Ran

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A Skill Can Run Commands Before Claude Reads It: What to Check First

A Skill Can Run Commands Before Claude Reads It: What to Check First

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Not Every Rule Belongs in CLAUDE.md: When a Script or Hook Is Better

Not Every Rule Belongs in CLAUDE.md: When a Script or Hook Is Better

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Your RAG Chunks Are Cut Mid-Sentence: A Small Script to Find Them

Your RAG Chunks Are Cut Mid-Sentence: A Small Script to Find Them

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What "Don't Ask Again" Saves in Claude Code, and How to Audit It

What "Don't Ask Again" Saves in Claude Code, and How to Audit It

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Your Agent Said "Done". Spec Kit's Converge Step Checks the Code Instead

Your Agent Said "Done". Spec Kit's Converge Step Checks the Code Instead

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Your Agent's Memory Needs a Scope: What to Keep, Where, and When to Forget

Your Agent's Memory Needs a Scope: What to Keep, Where, and When to Forget

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A2A in Plain English: Read an Agent Card, Then Follow One Task

A2A in Plain English: Read an Agent Card, Then Follow One Task

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Off-Brand UI From Your AI Agent? Write, Lint and Wire a DESIGN.md

Off-Brand UI From Your AI Agent? Write, Lint and Wire a DESIGN.md

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MCP Without Code: Connect Your AI Assistant to a Folder, Step by Step

MCP Without Code: Connect Your AI Assistant to a Folder, Step by Step

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Your AI Agent Passed Its Evals. 5 Ways the Evals Might Be Lying

Your AI Agent Passed Its Evals. 5 Ways the Evals Might Be Lying

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Your Agent's Context Fills Up Before You Type: What to Trim First

Your Agent's Context Fills Up Before You Type: What to Trim First

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A Stray AGENTS.md Can Steer Your Agent: Check What It Loads First

A Stray AGENTS.md Can Steer Your Agent: Check What It Loads First

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Cursor, Claude Code or Both? Splitting the Work by Task, Not by Hype

Cursor, Claude Code or Both? Splitting the Work by Task, Not by Hype

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What to Log When Your AI Agent Retries: A Production Tracing Checklist

What to Log When Your AI Agent Retries: A Production Tracing Checklist

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Grok Bot Routines: Make It Reliable, Save a Skill, Then Schedule It

Grok Bot Routines: Make It Reliable, Save a Skill, Then Schedule It

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Vibe Coding Broke Your App? A One-Page Spec That Keeps Your Agent in Scope

Vibe Coding Broke Your App? A One-Page Spec That Keeps Your Agent in Scope

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Grok Bot Quick Start: One Job, One Brief, One Useful First Task

Grok Bot Quick Start: One Job, One Brief, One Useful First Task

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Coming to Claude Code from Codex? 7 Things to Set Up on Day One

Coming to Claude Code from Codex? 7 Things to Set Up on Day One

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Agent Skills Are Now an Open Standard: Write Your First SKILL.md in 15 Minutes

Agent Skills Are Now an Open Standard: Write Your First SKILL.md in 15 Minutes

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Bad RAG Answers? Check Retrieval Before You Touch the Prompt

Bad RAG Answers? Check Retrieval Before You Touch the Prompt

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Why Your AI Agent Forgets Everything (and the 4 Kinds of Memory That Fix It)

Why Your AI Agent Forgets Everything (and the 4 Kinds of Memory That Fix It)

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Single Agent, Subagents or an Agent Team? When Multi-Agent Coding Pays Off

Single Agent, Subagents or an Agent Team? When Multi-Agent Coding Pays Off

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Before You Connect an MCP Server: A 5-Question Trust Check

Before You Connect an MCP Server: A 5-Question Trust Check

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Where Your Coding Agent's Token Bill Goes, and 7 Levers to Cut It

Where Your Coding Agent's Token Bill Goes, and 7 Levers to Cut It

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Your CLAUDE.md Is Too Long: What to Cut So Claude Code Follows It

Your CLAUDE.md Is Too Long: What to Cut So Claude Code Follows It

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Build a 10-Case Eval Set for Your AI Agent and Run It on Every Change

Build a 10-Case Eval Set for Your AI Agent and Run It on Every Change

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6 AGENTS.md Mistakes That Make Your Coding Agent Ignore It

6 AGENTS.md Mistakes That Make Your Coding Agent Ignore It

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Why AI Doesn't Need to Hate Us to Be Dangerous

Why AI Doesn't Need to Hate Us to Be Dangerous

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What Is AI Alignment? A Plain-English Explanation

What Is AI Alignment? A Plain-English Explanation

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Will AI Take My Job? What Four Possible Futures Say About Work

Will AI Take My Job? What Four Possible Futures Say About Work

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How Will AI Change the World? 4 Possible Futures (and How to Prepare)

How Will AI Change the World? 4 Possible Futures (and How to Prepare)

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How to Build a Spotify Playlist with AI in Minutes

How to Build a Spotify Playlist with AI in Minutes

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How to Get Paid to Make Spotify Playlists

How to Get Paid to Make Spotify Playlists

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Guardrails First: Using AI for Business Without It Making Dumb Decisions

Guardrails First: Using AI for Business Without It Making Dumb Decisions

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How I Automated a Real Small-Business Workflow With Just ChatGPT (No Code)

How I Automated a Real Small-Business Workflow With Just ChatGPT (No Code)

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Prompt Engineering for Non-Coders: The Copy-Paste Workflow That Works

Prompt Engineering for Non-Coders: The Copy-Paste Workflow That Works

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Outcome vs. Process: Evaluating Multi-Step Agents

Outcome vs. Process: Evaluating Multi-Step Agents

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LLM-as-Judge: How to Use a Model to Evaluate a Model

LLM-as-Judge: How to Use a Model to Evaluate a Model

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How to Build a Test Set for Your AI Agent

How to Build a Test Set for Your AI Agent

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How to Evaluate an AI Agent (When There's No Single Right Answer)

How to Evaluate an AI Agent (When There's No Single Right Answer)

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How to Estimate Tokens for RAG (and Why Character Counts Mislead)

How to Estimate Tokens for RAG (and Why Character Counts Mislead)

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Chunk Overlap in RAG: What It Is and How Much You Need

Chunk Overlap in RAG: What It Is and How Much You Need

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Fixed-Size vs. Structure-Aware Chunking: Which Should You Use?

Fixed-Size vs. Structure-Aware Chunking: Which Should You Use?

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How to Choose the Right Chunk Size for RAG (Without Guessing)

How to Choose the Right Chunk Size for RAG (Without Guessing)

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Writing Agent Memories: What to Store and What to Skip

Writing Agent Memories: What to Store and What to Skip

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Memory vs. Context Window vs. RAG: What's the Difference?

Memory vs. Context Window vs. RAG: What's the Difference?

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The Four Types of AI Agent Memory, Explained

The Four Types of AI Agent Memory, Explained

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AI Agent Memory: Why Your Agent Forgets, and How to Fix It

AI Agent Memory: Why Your Agent Forgets, and How to Fix It

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Zero-Dependency vs Framework: Shipping a Tool as One HTML File

Zero-Dependency vs Framework: Shipping a Tool as One HTML File

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Designing a 'Remix' Flow: From Static Library to Editable Composer

Designing a 'Remix' Flow: From Static Library to Editable Composer

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Auto-Appending Format Constraints to Prompts Programmaticall

Auto-Appending Format Constraints to Prompts Programmaticall

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Persisting User Data in a No-Backend HTML App (localStorage Patterns)

Persisting User Data in a No-Backend HTML App (localStorage Patterns)

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How I Structured 3,000 Prompts Into a Searchable Browser Tool

How I Structured 3,000 Prompts Into a Searchable Browser Tool

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Prompt Engineering for Text-to-Video: Patterns That Generalize

Prompt Engineering for Text-to-Video: Patterns That Generalize

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Building a Single-File Offline Prompt Tool With Vanilla JS

Building a Single-File Offline Prompt Tool With Vanilla JS

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The Anatomy of a Cinematic AI Video Prompt (a 7-Block Structure)

The Anatomy of a Cinematic AI Video Prompt (a 7-Block Structure)

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5 A2A Mistakes That Break Production Systems

5 A2A Mistakes That Break Production Systems

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Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns: Orchestrator, Parallel, and Peer Handoffs

Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns: Orchestrator, Parallel, and Peer Handoffs

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Securing Agent-to-Agent Communication: OAuth, JWT, and Zero Trust

Securing Agent-to-Agent Communication: OAuth, JWT, and Zero Trust

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