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    1. From Building to Orchestrating: The SDLC Skills That Changed How I Ship

      I distilled my 8-agent SDLC framework into three skills and shipped two projects in under a week. The velocity was real. So were the failure modes.…

      • on AI SDLC

    2. StoryTime: Building a Local AI Storybook App That Never Phones Home

      My daughter and I built bedtime stories together — she helps write them, local AI generates the cover images, and nothing leaves the machine. Here's how it came together.…

      • on AI tools

    3. Human Error vs Machine Judgment: A Comparative Failure Record

      Before AI could make catastrophic decisions, humans had a head start. Here's the comparative record — what we broke, how we broke it, and what changed when the mistakes started making themselves.…

      • on AI Security

    4. Writing AI Agent Specs: Less Art, more checklists

      How building 8 specialized AI agents for a full SDLC taught me that good specs aren't about prose — they're about checklists, boundaries, and templates.…

      • on AI

    5. Claude Code Tips & Tricks

      Practical ways to get more out of Claude Code in your IDE and the Claude app.…

      • on AI tools