I want to tell you about the specific flavor of wrong that is being marked incorrect on a certification quiz using your own reasoning. Not wrong because you misunderstood. Not […]
I Almost Cancelled My Claude Pro Subscription. Here’s What Three Days of Token Rationing Actually Taught Me.
I want to tell you what “agentic AI” actually looks like when you stop reading the marketing and start building something real. Spoiler: it looks like bike rides in 90-degree […]
Subagents: Or, How I Got Minions and Stopped Babysitting AI
I want to explain what a subagent is, because every technical description I’ve read makes it sound less useful than it actually is. The technical version: a subagent is a […]
2026 Backard Garden
Many people who know me know that, though I may have a slight addiction to programming, I also love to garden. I picked up a small side job helping a […]
I Trusted Claude Code Was Done. It Wasn’t Wrong — I Just Never Checked.
I want to start with the thing that actually mattered from this session, before I get to the part that’s funnier but less important. Last week, working on a Claude […]
I Called the Bluff Six Weeks Ago. Then I Went and Did the Thing.
In May, I wrote a post about a pattern I’d noticed across roughly 20,000 job listings: postings demanding “5 years of LLM experience” for a technology that’s been commercially relevant […]
Your Employment Contract Has a Clause You Didn’t Read. Here’s What It Says.
I want to tell you about Section 3.3. It’s in the sample employment contract I built to test my PDF Contract Analyzer. It looks like this: “All inventions, developments, and […]
CLAUDE.md: The File That Finally Made AI Work My Way
I want to tell you about the chapter in the Claude Code 101 course that made me stop and feel something I wasn’t expecting. Not excitement. Not curiosity. Vindication. The […]
I Built a Working App in 45 Minutes on a Broken Setup. Here’s What That Actually Means.
Let me tell you exactly what “broken setup” means, because I want the context to land correctly. Windows 10 laptop. Not Windows 11 — I’ve been hesitating on that upgrade […]
The Code That’s Been Running Since 1987 Is Still Running. Nobody Knows What It Does.
Let me tell you about a bug I didn’t write. I was building my first Claude API project — a tool that reads legacy source code and analyzes it. I […]