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 […]
Show Your Work: What Extended Thinking Actually Is
My eighth-grade math teacher had a rule: the answer alone wasn’t enough. Show the work. Every step was laid out, so she could see where the reasoning went right or […]
The Best Prompt I Ever Wrote, I Didn’t Write
There’s an entire genre of content right now about how to write better prompts. Courses. YouTube rabbit holes. LinkedIn thought leaders with their numbered frameworks and their “steal this prompt” […]
AI Assumed We’d Figured Out Testing. We Hadn’t.
My second summer job was at a software company that made backup software. They had a lab. Rows of machines running different operating systems, different hardware configurations. And they had […]
Temperature: The AI Creativity Dial I Had Completely Backwards
I want to tell you about the moment in week one of Anthropic’s API course that made me stop, reread the slide, and laugh out loud at myself. It was […]