I was the validator all along
My AI coding setup worked until I noticed I was spending more time checking output than building. The fix was giving the validation job to another agent.
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What happens when the apprenticeship gets automated?
The tedious work of program management was never only overhead. It was also how we learned the craft. AI is automating that path, and the profession has not addressed what replaces...
Your .md files are a memory architecture (you just don't call it that)
The manual context management patterns that work today map closely onto the agent memory architectures being built for the near future.
A starter prompt that actually remembers what you told it
I rebuilt my Claude Code starter prompt around .md files as external memory. This covers why and how.
Context hygiene: managing what an AI keeps across sessions
The bottleneck in long-running AI sessions is not model intelligence. It is context management. Here is what I have learned about keeping an AI on track across complex, multi-sessi...
Hacking the Heat: Retrofitting Adax Heaters with ESPHome and Custom PCBs
Moving from cloud-dependent heating to fully local control on custom hardware, in several phases.
Why I built this blog with Express instead of a static site generator
There are faster ways to ship a blog. I picked Express and Handlebars anyway, and this post explains the reasoning.