AI Pricing Is Becoming UX
GPT-5.6 turns capability into a price ladder, while Codex Spark turns speed into a separate button. AI pricing is becoming part of the interface.
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AI-Generated Code Review: What Reviewers Should Still Block
Models make awkward code cheaper to replace. Review should block future risk and leave private ideas of neat to automated conventions.
The Best Coding Agent Is the One You Can Keep Using
Grok Build produces useful patches, but its weekly limit changes how I use it. The harness and quota now matter more than the model.
Learning Rust with Claude Code Through Local Hardware Projects
Claude Code lowers the cost of being a Rust beginner. It kept two local-hardware projects moving while I learned the language inside them.
Document Your Quirks: Why CLAUDE.md Changes Everything
I spent 45 minutes teaching Claude a fix I already knew. Putting that project quirk in CLAUDE.md stopped the same rediscovery next time.
Claude Code Comes to the Web and iOS
Claude Code on the web changes coding from an editor interaction into delegated work. That matters more than adding another interface.
Building a Modern Full-Stack Web Application - Part 2
How I deployed the React Router application with Fly.io, Cloudflare, Neon, Docker, and migration history I could roll back.
Building a Modern Full-Stack Web Application: Part 1
The React Router, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and authentication stack I chose after using LLMs to prototype the alternatives.
We Rebuilt the UI Instead of Refactoring It
A new data-model entity touched several old pages. Rebuilding those UI components was faster than carrying their Flow types and old assumptions forward.
GitHub Copilot Adds Agent Mode and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Copilot shipped agent mode and more models. Microsoft also tightened extension licenses so some tools refuse to run in Cursor.
Claude Code's Strengths and Weaknesses in March 2025
Claude Code for hobby refactors, Cursor at work — two tools, two jobs, and where each one still breaks.
How Claude Code Built This Blog - Part 2
Claude Code helped build the parser, generator, templates, and Cloudflare deployment. Syntax highlighting and timezones took more work.
How Claude Code Built This Blog - Part 1
I paid about $10 to see whether Claude Code could scaffold the TypeScript static-site generator behind this blog. Most of its choices held up.
Public Code Gives AI More Context to Work With
Public libraries give coding agents examples, documentation, and discussions they can retrieve. Private APIs must supply that context themselves.
AWS Lambda's Bad Interface Is Actually a Feature
Lambda's clunky deployment process forced me to think small. That constraint led me to better microservices design. Sometimes friction is good.
Why Browsers Killed Flash (And Why Designers Lost Out)
I worked in advertising as browsers pushed Flash out. The web gained battery life and privacy controls, while ad production got much harder.
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