The craft posts. What actually changes when you work with AI tools every day, where the interesting failures live, and the small disciplines that keep production sane.
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Money for Nothing — When feedback arrives late, noisy, or wearing the wrong sign. — June 2026
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The Machine Had Been Keeping a Diary — Burn the land and boil the sea; the skills, I hope, come with me. — June 2026
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Encode It, Don’t Remember It — Panic! at the SWC Compiler: cannot add pure comment to zero position. — June 2026
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The more an AI can break, the less you let it do. — Notes from a production incident. — June 2026
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I Didn’t Grok Superpowers — You Can’t Just Install Someone Else’s Workflow and Level Up. — May 2026
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Show Your Work — On discovering that “show your work” is not the same thing as “do the work well.” — May 2026
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Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied — That they forgot to ask whether SSHing into an AI coding agent from a phone was a good idea. — May 2026
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Conscious Coverage — We don’t talk about Code coverage, no no no, we don’t talk about coverage… — April 2026
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The Canary in the Harness — On discovering that your favourite tool got measurably worse, that you’d been blaming yourself for it, and that the only reason you noticed at all was because another harness was sitting right next to it behaving normally. — April 2026
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The Grand Plugin Trap — A modest meditation on plugins, portability, and the peculiar sorrow of a workflow that cannot leave the building. — April 2026
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The Council Will See You Now… — You were the chosen one! You were supposed to destroy the hallucinations, not join them! — April 2026
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The Smell of Panic When You Context Thrash — High high hope for the code, shooting for a PR when I couldn’t even make a commit… — March 2026
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The Feedback That Doesn’t Care About Your Title — What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger … right? — March 2026
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14 PRs, 6 Repos, 1 Button: A Tale of Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole — True stories from the front lines of the internet… — February 2026
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This Is the Way: Delete the Code — How I learned to do AI Katas and make disposable code helped me recover from burnout — February 2026
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Why You Shouldn’t Speedrun a Production Refactor — Learning the hard way that AI makes discipline more important, not less… — December 2025
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The Boring Path to Actually Shipping with AI — Or: How I Learned to Stop Vibing and Love the Spec” — October 2025
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AI Spec Driven Development — A brief summary of what I have learnt — October 2025
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From AI Skeptic to Constant Collaborator: What I Learned Vibe Coding — The Question That Started Everything… am I going to lose my job? — October 2025
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Cards, Chaos and the subtle art of Claude Code — Last Time on Madness Boulevard… — October 2025
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The Zero-to-Vibe Coding Jumpstart Cube Catastrophication — From Pauper to Pandemonium: Building a Magic Jumpstart cube when you can’t change anything — August 2025