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Model Lock-In: The Quiet Tax of the AI Era
Foundation models are commoditizing. The lock-in is not. It moved up the stack into prompts, memory, skills, and the muscle memory of how I work. A field report on where model lock-in actually hides and what I do to keep it shallow.
July 28, 2026 11 min read
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Where the Value Accrues: Vertical Integration, Horizontal Orchestration, and the Real Architecture of AI
The AI industry is replaying the oldest pattern in computing. Vertical integration versus horizontal abstraction. Christensen's Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits explains where the real value will land.
June 25, 2026 14 min read
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AI Is Changing Design Jobs Forever, The Brutal Truth for Enterprise Designers in 2026
AI is already rewriting design work inside enterprise teams. The execution-heavy version of the job is shrinking. The strategic, empathetic, end-to-end version is the only one that survives.
June 3, 2026 8 min read
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Headless AI Is Here, and It's About to Change Everything
We all love chatting with AI in chat windows. The real revolution is happening behind the scenes. Salesforce just made it impossible to ignore. A reflection on headless LLM interactions and where this goes next.
May 27, 2026 5 min read
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Finding the Right Place for MCP: My JIRA Story and the Honest Trade-Off
I used to think every API needed an MCP server. JIRA taught me otherwise. A reflection on when MCP earns its keep, when direct tool calling wins, and how the multi-user auth story is finally maturing in 2026.
May 23, 2026 6 min read
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The Limits of the Personal Engineering Org
The three-layer engineering stack works in most situations. The harder skill is knowing the situations where it does not. Six concrete failure modes where the right move is to switch the stack off and reach for something smaller.
May 16, 2026 6 min read
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Impeccable: The Design Skill That Made Claude Code My Most Valuable UI/UX Asset
Impeccable, by Paul Bakaus, is a Claude Code skill that gives the model the actual vocabulary designers use, then enforces it across 23 commands. After running it on dashboards, marketing sites, internal tools, and client work, it has become a permanent fixture in my stack.
May 14, 2026 7 min read
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The Personal Engineering Org: gstack, Superpowers, and Visual-Explainer
Three open-source tools, gstack, Superpowers, and Visual-Explainer, turn a single Claude Code terminal into a coordinated engineering team that thinks strategically, enforces process, and communicates visually.
May 10, 2026 9 min read
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10 strategies I use to slash token usage without compromising quality and reliability
After months of building production-grade systems with Claude Code, here are the hard-won practices that have cut token consumption by 60-80% while improving output quality and reliability.
May 7, 2026 14 min read
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My Personal AI Evaluation Framework: How I Size Up Every New Tool I Come Across
I've tested more AI products than I care to admit. Most disappoint. Here is the brutally practical eight-dimension framework I use to decide whether any tool is actually worth my time and money.
May 3, 2026 7 min read
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The 5-Gate Rule: Never Ship AI Code Without Adversarial Review
AI coding assistants are fast. That's the problem. Speed without verification is how you ship shell injection, database corruption, and backwards alerts, all in the same session.
May 1, 2026 10 min read
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How I Dramatically Improve My Existing Applications Using Claude Code, gstack, and Superpowers
Most AI coding workflows assume you're starting from scratch. Here is the exact flow I use with gstack and Superpowers to safely improve production code I already have.
April 30, 2026 11 min read
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Token Anxiety: How AI Rate Limits Hijacked My Brain
My entire day-to-day existence is now tethered to tokens. When they run out, I don't just lose productivity. I lose my damn mind.
April 26, 2026 7 min read
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How I Build Software with AI
A spec-driven workflow layering Claude Max, gstack, and Superpowers into a multi-model, multi-defense-layer engineering system that consistently ships clean, production-ready features.
March 25, 2026 9 min read