001 2026.05.18
May 18, 2026
The 75% Problem: Why AI-Assisted Builds Stall at the Finish Line
AI gets you to 75% fast. That's the trap: the 75% mark looks finished, and the last 25% takes as long as the first 75%. Here's how to plan for it.
001 2026.05.18
May 18, 2026
AI gets you to 75% fast. That's the trap: the 75% mark looks finished, and the last 25% takes as long as the first 75%. Here's how to plan for it.
002 2026.05.11
May 11, 2026
The reason AI-assisted builds stall isn't the model: design decisions were never made. Here's why writing the spec first changes everything.
003 2026.05.04
May 4, 2026
Most CLAUDE.md files decay because they're written as config and forgotten. Here's how to treat them as living artifacts that improve over time.
004 2026.04.27
April 27, 2026
AI coding tools don't fail on prompts. They fail on ambiguous artifacts. Here's what Agent Experience means in practice and why it starts with your spec, not your model.
005 2013.12.08
December 8, 2013
Recently, I built an API wrapper for Mandrill. Let's walk through the steps I used to create it.
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