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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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Cursor vs Claude Code: an honest field log (2026)
A month of running Cursor and Claude Code daily on the same Next.js project. What each one is actually for, where they bit me, the cost difference, and why I kept both instead of picking a winner.
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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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Git worktrees for parallel AI coding agents (2026 field log)
Running three to five AI coding agents at once with git worktrees for two weeks: the exact setup, honest merge and cost numbers, the failure mode nobody warns you about, and when parallel agents are the wrong call.
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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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Vibe coding with Claude Code: what the third hour looks like
Hour three of vibe coding is where the magic wears off and the work begins. The agent starts drifting from its own code, re-implementing helpers and calling renamed props. I stay productive by committing at every green moment, re-grounding the context against real files every 30 minutes, narrowing the agent's scope when it wanders, and starting a fresh session when the context gets poisoned. Flow is a tool, not the goal.
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