AI dev workflow
Claude Code hooks: the 4 I kept, the 2 I deleted (2026)
I ran Claude Code hooks daily for a month. Four earned their place, two got deleted, and one quietly made my workflow worse. The honest field log.
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M. Patel
Backend dev. Writes when something breaks. Currently shipping a B2B agent product with one cofounder.
AI dev workflow
I Cut My AGENTS.md From 400 Lines to 40
An AGENTS.md file helps AI coding agents, but only when it is short. A two-week field log on trimming mine from 412 lines to 38, and why less context beat more.
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AI dev workflow
Reviewing AI-generated code without losing my week (2026)
Reviewing AI-generated code is the new bottleneck. Here is the 15-minute triage system I run on every agent pull request, and when I just rewrite instead.
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Three things I deleted from my Claude Code setup this month (and one I almost did)
A short, honest June 2026 retro on what got cut from a working Claude Code config: the custom statusline, the over-engineered MCP wrapper, the autosave permission. Plus the one thing I almost killed and why I kept it.
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AI dev workflow
Claude Code subagents: my 4 keepers, 3 I deleted (June 2026)
Seven Claude Code subagents written in a week. Four still run daily, three are in the trash. The YAML, the tool whitelists, the cost-per-invocation numbers, the three anti-patterns I won't repeat, and the honest carve-outs where subagents are the wrong tool.
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AI IDE
The IDE settings I changed after a year of AI pair programming
After a year of AI pair programming, I optimize my editor for reviewing, not writing. I format only modified ranges to keep diffs honest, switch to inline diffs, bind word-by-word accept and next-hunk navigation to fast keys, keep a short instructions file in version control, auto-approve only safe local commands, and commit constantly. The settings all follow one shift: I read far more code than I write now.
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