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Agentic engineering: from the trenches.

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
Production Hardening: The Boring Part Nobody Talks About
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Production Hardening: The Boring Part Nobody Talks About

AI can build features fast. Making them production-ready is still slow, deliberate, and entirely your responsibility.

5 min 6
The Memory Bloat Crisis: When Agent Files Grew to 95KB
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The Memory Bloat Crisis: When Agent Files Grew to 95KB

Two weeks in, my typescript-implementer's memory file was 95KB and 2,133 lines. The system designed to make agents smarter was making them slower.

4 min 8
One Slack Message. Two Hours of Work.
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One Slack Message. Two Hours of Work.

Session 13. A real ticket, a Slack message, and then I stepped away. What happened next wasn't what I expected.

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