IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS

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Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.

279 articles

23 Feb 2026 · 14 min read

Claude for Researchers: From Question to Report in 30 Minutes

A hands-on guide for researchers, students, and executives — how to use Claude Web, Desktop, and Code to research any topic, write reports, create slides, and generate spreadsheets. No coding required.

22 Feb 2026 · 5 min read

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The AI Solution Architect: System Design, ADRs & Technology Selection in the AI Era (Part 4 of 12)

Part 4 of 12 — How AI transforms the Solution Architect role: AI-assisted architecture diagramming, ADR generation, trade-off analysis, technology selection rationale, and the architectural taste that only experience provides.

22 Feb 2026 · 22 min read

The Voice AI Interview Playbook: Building the Voice Pipeline — STT, LLM, and TTS That Actually Work (Part 4 of 12)

Part 4 of 12 — Deepgram Nova-3 or Whisper for STT? Gemini Flash or GPT-4o for conversation? ElevenLabs or Cartesia for TTS? Real benchmarks, real costs, and the combinations that actually work in production.

22 Feb 2026 · 13 min read

The Patterns That Actually Make Claude Code 10x: Subagents, Parallel Sessions, and 6 Months of Lessons

Part 5 of 5 — Plan-before-code workflow, subagents for parallel tasks, context management strategies, debugging with Claude, the anti-patterns that waste time, and honest lessons from 6 months of daily production use.

21 Feb 2026 · 6 min read

The AI Product Owner & PM: Backlog, Planning & Stakeholder Alignment in the AI Era (Part 3 of 12)

Part 3 of 12 — How AI transforms the PO and PM roles: AI-assisted backlog scoring, sprint planning, status reporting, risk flagging, release note generation, and stakeholder communication — and the human judgment that keeps it grounded.

21 Feb 2026 · 12 min read

Custom Skills and GitHub Workflows: Making Claude Code Do Exactly What Your Team Needs

Part 4 of 5 — Writing custom skills with SKILL.md, slash commands, the official and community skill repos, GitHub PR automation with @claude mentions, GitHub Actions integration, and team workflow patterns.

20 Feb 2026 · 11 min read

The Voice AI Interview Playbook: Cascaded vs. Speech-to-Speech — Choosing Your Pipeline Architecture (Part 2 of 12)

Part 2 of 12 — The cascaded STT→LLM→TTS pipeline gives you control. Speech-to-speech models give you speed. Here's how to choose — and why the best systems use both.

20 Feb 2026 · 6 min read

The AI Business Analyst: Requirements, Discovery & User Stories in the AI Era (Part 2 of 12)

Part 2 of 12 — How AI agents transform the BA role: from manual interview synthesis to structured requirements in hours, AI-assisted user story generation, acceptance criteria validation, and the human skills that stay irreplaceable.

20 Feb 2026 · 12 min read

I Connected 12 MCP Servers to Claude Code — Here's Which Ones Actually Matter

Part 3 of 5 — What MCP is, how to configure servers in .mcp.json, the top servers by category (GitHub, Playwright, databases, search, design, cloud), performance pitfalls, and why you should limit yourself to 2-3 per project.