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Writing from the trenches about applied AI.

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• The CLI-First World

  8 Mar, 2026

  Why CLIs are becoming the best interface for agents, and why that matters more than chat wrappers.

• Tips to make Claude Code work faster!

  15 Jul, 2025

  Replace traditional GNU tools with modern Rust alternatives to make Claude Code operations 5-20x faster. A simple setup that dramatically improves your AI coding assistant performance.

• How to Orchestrate an Army of Software Engineers using UPER

  10 Jul, 2025

  Master Augmented Coding with Claude Code through the UPER framework - Understand, Plan, Execute, Review. Learn how to apply software engineering best practices at scale with AI agents.

Recent Posts

• Warm Up the Context Window

  24 Feb, 2026

  The best MCP workflow for Codex CLI starts with research, not code. Use DeepWiki MCP and Perplexity MCP to onboard your agent and improve execution quality.