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The 97% Bundle Cut: Why AI Agents Need Human Expertise
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The 97% Bundle Cut: Why AI Agents Need Human Expertise

An AI agent built our blog system. It worked. It also shipped a ticking time bomb. Here's why human expertise matters more, not less, in the age of agentic engineering.

8 min 10
From Beta Tester to Agentic Engineer: A Timeline
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From Beta Tester to Agentic Engineer: A Timeline

A chronological account of how I went from treating AI as a smart autocomplete to running 18 specialized agents on a production engineering pipeline.

7 min 10
The Clean Slate Is Gone: Claude Code's Memory and the Autonomous Workflow Problem
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The Clean Slate Is Gone: Claude Code's Memory and the Autonomous Workflow Problem

Claude Code now remembers things you didn't tell it to. For interactive use, that's a nice feature. For autonomous pipelines, it's a different problem entirely.

8 min 9
Archaeologist Mode: Mining 700MB of AI Conversation Logs
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Archaeologist Mode: Mining 700MB of AI Conversation Logs

Claude Code keeps full conversation transcripts. I mined 700MB of them to reconstruct 20 lost journals and find the founding conversations I thought were gone.

5 min 8
I Let AI Build This Website — Here's What Actually Happened
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I Let AI Build This Website — Here's What Actually Happened

Building CodeWithAgents.de with AI agents. What worked, what broke, what surprised me.

12 min 7
The AI Slop Problem: When Everyone Can Publish, Nobody Can Filter
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The AI Slop Problem: When Everyone Can Publish, Nobody Can Filter

AI makes content production trivial. That's not the revolution — surviving the flood of mediocrity is.

5 min 18
Built in One Session: From Empty Repo to Deployed Presentation
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Built in One Session: From Empty Repo to Deployed Presentation

I started with an empty Git repository and ended with a fully deployed mobile-first presentation on GitHub Pages — without writing a single line of code myself.

8 min 3
97.78% Confidence: Building a Receipt Scanner with AI Agents
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97.78% Confidence: Building a Receipt Scanner with AI Agents

Three phases, five critical bugs, and what 97.78% OCR confidence actually looks like when real users upload real photos.

6 min 4
Planning a Database Migration with AI: 11 Weeks, 15 Questions
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Planning a Database Migration with AI: 11 Weeks, 15 Questions

How I used an AI agent as a planning partner — not a code generator — to design a complex database migration before writing a single line.

5 min 6
Why I Chose 'Agents Record, Optimizer Thinks'
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Why I Chose 'Agents Record, Optimizer Thinks'

When 18 agents each maintained their own memory files, the system became unmaintainable. The solution was a philosophical split: separate data collection from knowledge curation.

5 min 7