A Year of AI Pair Programming: What Actually Changed
Originally published on robatdasorvi.com The first sign that something had shifted was when I stopped feeling proud of finishing things. That sounds w…
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The entire Claude Code skills top 10 belongs to three authors. Anthropic holds one slot.
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Build a webhook-driven email pipeline for your AI agent
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A Folder of Docs Is Not a Knowledge Base
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'Approve All' Is How Your Agent Ships the Dangerous One
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One agent mailbox per tenant in a multi-tenant SaaS
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Stop Using 6 Chrome Tabs for Code Reviews—Do It in Your Terminal
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I built a privacy-first alternative to jwt.io, regex101 and every other dev tool that phones home
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Every Repo Is a World Model
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Your next model upgrade won't close this gap
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How to Test Slack Webhooks Locally
The Challenge of Testing Slack Webhooks Locally Testing Slack webhooks locally is deceptively tricky. Slack needs to reach your handler over the inter…
Sprint 9 closed: Desktop MVP
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Where Claude Code's Tokens Actually Go (and How I Cut My Bill in Half)
Disclosure up front: I'm the author of Lynkr , the open-source (Apache-2.0) proxy discussed below. All numbers come from a benchmark you can reproduce…
Prompt Caching in Practice: The 5-Minute Cache and Workflow Design
The Mechanics of Prompt Caching: Beyond the API Docs Prompt caching is a critical technique for optimizing AI workflows, especially when dealing with …