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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I built one app with three AI builders: a weekend field log (June 2026)
One weekend, one invoice tracker, three AI app builders (Lovable, Bolt.new, Totalum). Honest field log: where each one shone, where each one stalled, and which one survived to Monday morning.
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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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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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Cursor background agents: a 7-day field log (June 2026)
Seven days of running Cursor background agents on a real Next.js side project. 23 tasks, 14 PRs, 9 merged, $11.40 spent. What shipped, what failed, the task spec that doubled the merge rate, and when to reach for an AI app builder instead.
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