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Philip Hern

Aug 10

one agent, one repo, one writer at a time

#cursor #subagents #workflow #ai

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6 min read

Philip Hern

Aug 10

parallel subagents: when to use them vs regular skills

#cursor #subagents #skills #workflow

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9 min read

Philip Hern

Aug 4

low thinking mode is actually better

#ai #models #workflow #cursor

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Aug 3

im on a boat

#notes #rest #travel #vacation

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 20

chapter 4 of ai-assisted data engineering is live

#ai #workflow #editor #tools

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 20

capability is not a reason to act

#ai #judgment #workflow #restraint

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 16

an efficient .cursor directory: less context, better agents

#cursor #workflow #ai #productivity

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8 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 13

chapter 3 of ai-assisted data engineering is live

#ai #dataengineering #production #verification

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 9

bronze, silver, and gold standard data vault 2.0

#datavault #dataengineering #modeling #architecture

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8 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 8

chapter 2 of ai-assisted data engineering is live

#ai #dataengineering #writing #books

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 6

model reviews coming soon to my youtube channel

#ai #models #youtube #workflow

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Jul 1

anything i can imagine

#ai #creativity #workflow #leadership

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 30

philliant on youtube is the companion to the writing

#notes #youtube #writing #ai

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 29

cursor automations for housekeeping and hygiene

#cursor #automation #workflow #ai

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6 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 27

what room to breathe makes room for

#rest #thinking #creativity #growth

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 17

something longer is coming

#notes #writing #books #creativity

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 16

ai only makes sense if you have already been through the cognitive struggle yourself

#ai #learning #growth #workflow

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 6

room to breathe

#ai #workflow #rest #thinking

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Jun 1

the guardrails i actually use with ai agents

#ai #guardrails #security #workflow

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7 min read

Philip Hern

May 29

dynamic tables, where have you been all my life?

#snowflake #dynamictables #dataengineering #database

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4 min read

Philip Hern

May 26

ai liberty

#ai #guardrails #security #workflow

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3 min read

Philip Hern

May 21

working with an ai model mirror

#ai #gemini35flash #workflow #developerproductivity

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2 min read

Philip Hern

May 18

again, adaptability for the win

#adaptability #decisionmaking #sunkcost #change

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3 min read

Philip Hern

May 9

working together or alone

#collaboration #teamwork #communication #decisionmaking

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7 min read

Philip Hern

May 9

keep your snapshots simple

#dbt #snapshots #type2scd #dataengineering

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10 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 26

on the plane, again

#notes #travel #wifi #work

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 26

logic

#logic #thinking #decisionmaking #problemsolving

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 23

back at it

#notes #persistence #workflow #testing

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 17

stick with it

#persistence #consistency #stress #selftalk

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 10

comfortable being uncomfortable

#growth #change #comfortzone #learning

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 10

dbt snapshots: moving from merges to native history

#dbt #dataengineering #snowflake #snapshots

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 7

little by little, a little becomes a lot

#habits #consistency #growth

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 5

how i automated dev.to and linkedin publishing so visibility stops depending on memory

#automation #devto #linkedin #publishing

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

the future of data engineering workflows with ai

#dataengineering #ai #workflow #future

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

how i use cursor and ai agents to write dbt tests and documentation

#dbt #cursor #ai #dataengineering

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

sharing is caring

#mentorship #ai #cursor #earlyadoption

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

what is art?

#ai #art #creativity #music

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

dbt tests: generic and singular tests with examples

#dbt #testing #dataquality #analyticsengineering

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

dbt docs: generate, write, and host them

#dbt #documentation #dataengineering #githubpages

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7 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

what is sql, and why it still works

#sql #database #relationaldatabases #history

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

snowflake vs rds vs dynamodb: how they differ

#snowflake #rds #dynamodb #database

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

adaptability

#adaptability #ai #work #change

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2 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

the danger of trusting the ai agent

#ai #workflow #trust #ownership

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

plane wifi: when the cabin forced disconnect

#commentary #travel #attention #wifi

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

left join an effective satellite without duplicating rows (use a cte)

#datavault #sql #effectivesatellite #leftjoin

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3 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

brain defrag: time away from screens (and from "one more" with ai)

#commentary #attention #rest #wellbeing

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

ai models i actually use in cursor (2026)

#ai #cursor #models #workflow

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6 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

a practical ai workflow: jira, github, and mcp

#ai #cursor #mcp #jira

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4 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

from prototype to production: my early adopter view of ai

#ai #adoption #benchmarks #llm

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6 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

starter templates for ai rules, skills, and commands

#ai #cursor #rules #skills

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

how to use ai to create ai rules, skills, and commands

#ai #cursor #rules #skills

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

ai br-ai-n fr-ai

#ai #workflow #focus #thinking

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5 min read

Philip Hern

Apr 3

my cursor setup: settings, rules, skills, and mcp

#cursor #workflow #ai #writing

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9 min read

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