I Want to Use Loops. I Can't Yet.
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I keep wanting to build with agentic loops. Every time I do the math on real work, I close the tab — and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm missing.
I’m driven by building something from nothing. With more than 15 years of experience, I focus on small wins—collaborate, build, test, refactor, repeat.
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All postsGeneration Is Free. Trust Isn't.
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Generation is becoming a commodity. Trust isn't. Here's what I noticed in the trend and what I changed in mx-workflow because of it.
Maybe the Phone Is the Setup
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I keep spending hours building real things from my phone — Claude Code running on my Mac mini, Tailscale tunneling me in. The laptop barely shows up. I'm starting to wonder if this is just the shape…
AI Is Not God
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Elder Gong released a talk today about hearing God's voice in an age of AI. I watched it as someone who uses AI all day — and I want my kids to carry one line from it.
Three Conditions for Letting AI Rebase My Branches
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Three things have to hold before I let the agent rebase end-to-end and push without reading the diff: solo code, code I know, and real QA plus automation behind me. Pull any one out and the workflow…
Casey Muratori Said Both Things
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On consecutive days, one of the most craft-obsessed programmers alive argued for the craft and predicted the market would stop rewarding it. I think I land somewhere in between.
The Context Bottleneck
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AI is fast. Humans are slow. The joke writes itself. But the question underneath it — where do I fit in this? — keeps following me around.
AI Ships Fast — But Who's Checking the Code?
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AI-generated code can ship in minutes. But speed without verification is just technical debt with a faster delivery truck. Here are the practices that actually improve reliability.
AI Has Changed Everything — and Nothing Feels Finished
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AI rewired how I build software. The joy is real. So is the stress, the confusion, and the nagging feeling that we are still configuring the future instead of living in it.
Does AI Gibberish Code Matter More Than Functionality?
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A one-page debate on whether the nonsense-looking code AI still ships should worry us more than the working features it unlocks.
The Shift: Building Components for AI, Not Just Browsers
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Frontend development is shifting from "build views for users in browsers" to "build components AI can use to present data." Here's what that means.
Three UI Frameworks Walk Into a Svelte Project
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Comparing shadcn-svelte, Skeleton, and DaisyUI—what they do differently and which one fits your Svelte project.
Git Worktree: Pros, Cons, and the Gotchas Worth Knowing
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Why git worktree is great for parallel work (and what to watch out for).
MCP in Front of APIs: What That Means (and Why It Matters)
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Why teams are putting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers “in front of” internal APIs—and how it changes developer workflows, architecture, and governance.
Living Like This: How Top Developers Work with AI Coding Assistants
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Five essential techniques from top agentic engineers: PRD-first development, modular rules, commandified workflows, context resets, and system evolution.
Spec Kit: Spec-driven development for AI-assisted coding
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A mock blog entry on GitHub’s Spec Kit and how it changes the way I work with coding agents.
Vibe Kanban: I’m a Fan
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Vibe Kanban feels like a simple workflow upgrade that amplifies what I can do without getting in the way.
Markdownify MCP: Turn (Almost) Anything Into Markdown
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A delightful MCP server that converts PDFs, images, audio, Office docs, and web pages into clean Markdown—perfect for AI workflows and note-taking.
The Next Phase Didn’t Become a New Project — It Became lehi31.com
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In my last post, From Three Weeks with AI CLI to Starting Fresh: My Next Phase, I talked about stepping back, resetting expectations, and moving toward a more deliberate, slice-by-slice way of…
From Three Weeks with AI CLI → Starting Fresh: My Next Phase
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It’s been a useful ride. In my previous post, I shared how I’d spent about three weeks using AI CLI tools (mainly Claude CLI and APEX) and learned some key lessons: slow the AI down so it outlines…
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