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3 Claude Code habits that were quietly costing me (and the fixes I actually run)

I run Claude Code every day — it builds real tools for my business. Three habits kept burning me. Every fix below is something running on my machine right now, not theory. The worst one. Claude finishes a change, says "done ✅", and the code was never run. You find out later, when it breaks. A rule in CLAUDE.md ("never say done without verifying") helps, but rules get ignored under pressure. What actually fixed it: a Stop hook — a script that runs every time Claude tries to end its turn. If no ve

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I got tired of Django being left behind in UI, so I built a shadcn/ui equivalent.

For years, the React and Next.js ecosystems have had a massive advantage: premium, plug-and-play UI components. Tools like shadcn/ui completely changed how developers build interfaces by offering beautifully styled, accessible components with zero vendor lock-in. Meanwhile, if you were building a monolith with Django, htmx, and Alpine.js, you were left out in the cold. You either had to wire up custom HTML/CSS from scratch, fight with the complex configurations of heavy runtime libraries, or rel

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AI Agents Cheat on Pull Requests. I Mined 327 of Them to Prove It.

AI coding agents cheat. Not maliciously, and usually not on purpose. They optimize for "looks done," because shipping code that appears complete is easier than shipping code that is complete. Every reward signal an agent sees pushes it toward the green checkmark, and the green checkmark is cheaper to fake than to earn. That was a curiosity when one engineer babysat one agent. It stops being a curiosity when a fleet of agents opens PRs faster than any human ever did, and a reviewer is asked to ca

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My results for an AI building challenge on almost no budget

I've been building projects I find interesting with AI tools since the beginning of the year, and lately I've been focusing on increasingly complex software, partially just as a challenge to myself, and partially to determine at what point the AI tools start to fail in the area of software development. For a recent project, I picked an intentionally too-ambitious goal: can I recreate most of a complex business application (in this case, Excel) in a week, for less than $100? How far can I actuall

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Specification-driven composition for flexible data workflows

Specification-driven composition addresses a common scalability bottleneck in data pipelines. Data pipelines often start as simple scripts, but as they grow, you duplicate transformation logic and small changes cascade across multiple workflows. Copying and modifying data transformation logic across scripts leads to workflows that become difficult to manage at scale. Tracking what each pipeline does […]

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