IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
45 articles
25 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai-agent
Compaction API, memory tool, effort parameter, web fetch, and MCP plugins — Claude's March 2026 API updates are not incremental improvements. They solve the hardest problems in agentic AI development.
Read more24 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Mistral's Devstral 2 scores 72.2% on SWE-bench, ships under MIT license, and costs up to 7x less than Claude Sonnet. Here's how it works, when to use it, and whether open-source agentic coding is finally production-ready.
Read more24 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4 Thinking, and Gemini 3.1 Pro all shipped within the same month. Here's a practical guide to choosing the right model for your team — based on real benchmarks and production patterns, not marketing slides.
Read more22 Feb 2026 · 13 min read
ai
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.
Read more20 Feb 2026 · 12 min read
ai
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.
Read more19 Feb 2026 · 11 min read
ai
Part 2 of 5 — VS Code extension setup, Command Palette workflows, inline diffs, @-mentions for file context, multi-tab conversations, auto-accept mode, Extended Thinking, and the daily habits that actually stick.
Read more18 Feb 2026 · 12 min read
ai
Part 1 of 5 — Installing Claude Code, writing an effective CLAUDE.md, the /init command, memory architecture, .claude/ directory structure, and turning a generic AI into a project-aware pair programmer.
Read more15 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
ai
How I set up Moltbot — the open-source personal AI assistant — to automate code reviews, deployments, monitoring alerts, and daily standups. A practical guide for developers who want AI that actually does things.
Read more01 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
ai
I've used Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and other AI tools every day for over a year. Here's what actually saves time, what wastes it, and the productivity trap nobody talks about.
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