#developer-experience
10 posts
- Building Kestrel: A Context-Aware AI Desktop Assistant in One Session
How I built a full LittleBird clone with screen context reading, meeting recording, arena mode, and MCP tool support — from scratch to packaged .app in a single coding session.
- The CLI Renaissance: How AI is Driving the Command Line Revolution
AI coding assistants output shell commands, not GUI instructions. That single fact is reversing a decade of developer tooling trends.
- Building a Developer Environment That Actually Works: My Dotfiles Journey
Most developer environments are optimized for keystrokes. The actual bottleneck is context transfer between you and your AI tools.
- Useful AI Code Review Needs Product Context
AI review only becomes valuable when it can reason about behavior, blast radius, user impact, and the evidence required to trust a change.
- Async Code Gen Turns Engineers Into Operators
Async code generation is delegated execution. The new work is task design, review, evidence, and deciding what the system is allowed to ship.
- The Death of the 10x Developer: Why AI Multiplication Beats Individual Optimization
AI commoditized the pattern recognition and architectural intuition that made 10x developers valuable. The bottleneck moved from individual output to...
- What Actually Failed Building a Multi-AI Content System
I built a multi-AI content pipeline combining Gemini and Claude. The failures taught me more than the architecture.
- Building for Humans AND Machines: The Dual-Audience Problem
Every web design decision now must serve two audiences: humans who browse visually and AI agents that consume data programmatically. The architectural...
- When AI Learns to Write Like You: A Meta-Analysis
I asked Claude to analyze my writing style across my blog posts. The patterns it found -- and the ones I didn't know I had -- were genuinely surprising.
- The AI Skill Mirror: Why Technical Interviews Need a Complete Rewrite
AI doesn't make everyone equally skilled. It amplifies existing ability. That changes what technical interviews should test.