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I Built a CLI That Turns Claude Code's /insights Report Into Actionable Skills, Rules, and Workflows

I Built a CLI That Turns Claude Code's /insights Report Into Actionable Skills, Rules, and Workflows

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The Gatekeeping Panic: What AI Actually Threatens in Software Development

The Gatekeeping Panic: What AI Actually Threatens in Software Development

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Nike Was Right: The Only Coding Advice You Actually Need

Nike Was Right: The Only Coding Advice You Actually Need

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Balancing Creative Identity with Senior Engineering Responsibilities

Balancing Creative Identity with Senior Engineering Responsibilities

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I built a baby tracker app from my wife’s hospital room

I built a baby tracker app from my wife’s hospital room

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When an AI Keeps Forgetting: Why LLM Workflows Collapse and What to Build Instead

When an AI Keeps Forgetting: Why LLM Workflows Collapse and What to Build Instead

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How I Hacked Office Politics Using a 1736 Algorithm (The Ben Franklin Effect)

How I Hacked Office Politics Using a 1736 Algorithm (The Ben Franklin Effect)

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5 Prompt Engineering Mistakes That Are Costing You Time (And How to Fix Them)

5 Prompt Engineering Mistakes That Are Costing You Time (And How to Fix Them)

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Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Make AI Think Step by Step (With Examples)

Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Make AI Think Step by Step (With Examples)

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Why Your AI Coding Agent Gets Exponentially More Expensive (and What to Do About It)

Why Your AI Coding Agent Gets Exponentially More Expensive (and What to Do About It)

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The Pareto Principle in IT: How 80/20 Thinking Shapes Everything We Build

The Pareto Principle in IT: How 80/20 Thinking Shapes Everything We Build

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The hidden cost of longs reviews: what 3-day reivews actually cost

The hidden cost of longs reviews: what 3-day reivews actually cost

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I Built a Free, Ad-Free Google Ads Keyword Mixer — Because Every Other One Sucks

I Built a Free, Ad-Free Google Ads Keyword Mixer — Because Every Other One Sucks

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We Tried the Chat-on-Left, Output-on-Right Pattern for AI Figures. It Failed. Here's What Worked.

We Tried the Chat-on-Left, Output-on-Right Pattern for AI Figures. It Failed. Here's What Worked.

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Closing the onboarding gap: a framework for Backend Engineers

Closing the onboarding gap: a framework for Backend Engineers

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