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Twenty Terminals Open, and No Idea Which One Needed Me
Running twenty Claude Code sessions at once is easy. Knowing which one is waiting for you is not. So I stopped paying for Cursor, stopped opening VS Code, and built a board of sticky notes where a card is the color of its status.
MCP, Skills, Commands, Agents: A Product Manager's No-BS Guide to AI Buzzwords
A product manager's plain-language explanation of MCP, Skills, Commands, and Agents — revisited with the repo habits that came out of actually living with them: a docs folder as memory, granular Skills over plugins, CLI over MCP where it counts, and picking a model per task.
My AI Coding Stack: A Practical Guide to Using ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, and Lovable
An evolving, practical AI coding stack — ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, and Lovable — updated with how I now default to the Claude Code CLI, route Opus, Sonnet, and GPT to different jobs, and why I dropped Fable.
If You Want to Ride the Horse, You Need to Speak Its Language: A Non-Engineer's Survival Guide to Git and GitHub
A plain-language glossary and workflow guide to Git and GitHub for non-developers using AI coding tools.
I Vibe Code Every Day Without an Engineering Team. Here Are the 3 Modes I Switch Between
Three modes of AI coding—auto-edit, planning, and GSD—and how matching the mode to the task drives better results without an engineering team.
When ChatGPT Is Not Enough: How I Planned an XTerra with AI
Planning an XTerra triathlon revealed why ChatGPT struggles with long projects, and how moving to Claude Code with files and MCP fixed memory and dates.
I Woke Up at 4 AM and Became a Vibe-Coding Master (In 6 Hours, Not 15 Minutes)
A first-person account of building a full-stack app in six hours with AI tools, plus the engineering mindset and patterns that made it work.
AI Won't Replace You (Unless You Allow It To)
Treating AI as a collaborative companion rather than a one-shot replacement, and recognizing its limits to work faster and stay ahead.