When AI Plays Your Cards
I built an AI poker tutor with two LLM-powered agents — one plays against you, the other coaches you. Here's the story of building The Nut, and what it taught me about where AI actually belongs in a game.
My Remote Agent Experiment: OpenClaw, Honest Results, and a Plot Twist from Anthropic
I set up a dedicated M4 Mac Mini running OpenClaw as a remote coding agent — isolated network, its own Apple ID, Slack interface. The vision was beautiful. The results were not. Then Anthropic announced exactly what I actually needed.
Getting Started with Agentic Dev — Part 1: Your Toolkit
Part 1 of a 3-part series on getting started with agentic software development. Everything you need to install and configure to start working with AI coding agents.
Introducing AI Labs — Learning in Public
Announcing AI Labs, a personal portfolio of AI experiments built for learning, tinkering, and sharing knowledge the way the web was meant to work.
From Custom AI Plumbing to Spring AI 1.1: How Native Tool Calling Transformed Our Caddie Agent
How migrating from a hand-rolled AI tool-calling system to Spring AI 1.1's native tool support cut our orchestration code nearly in half—and made adding new capabilities trivial.
Claude the DevOps Engineer: A Full Infrastructure Migration in One Day
How I migrated Leaderboard Fantasy from GCP to a VPS, moved from GitLab to GitHub, and set up automated backups—all in about 7 hours with Claude Code as my DevOps partner.
A Better Claude Code CLI: Custom Statusline Script
A quick tip for Claude Code users: add a custom statusline hook to see model info, API limits, context usage, and git branch at a glance.
2025 Year in Review: The Evolution of an Agentic Engineer
How a 26-year veteran developer went from vibe coding to orchestrating AI agents—and shipped 367,000 lines of code across two platforms in eight months. A reflection on growth, process, and why experience still matters in the age of AI.
An Inside Look Into Distributing Development Tasks Across Cloud and Local AI Agents
How I orchestrate cloud agents, local agents, and git worktrees to tackle multiple GitHub issues in parallel—and why spreading the load across compute environments has changed how I think about velocity.
Agentic Spec Writing: How I Use Claude and GitHub CLI to Turn Fuzzy Ideas into Phased Issues
How a custom Claude Code spec-writer command, wired into GitHub CLI and a wall of standards, lets me turn vague feature ideas into precise, 3–8 hour GitHub issues at high velocity.
From Solo Dev to Dev Team: Process Workflow and AI Agents Orchestration Are Multiplying My Output
My evolution from using basic AI coding assistants to orchestrating a full cloud and local AI agent workflow that's producing software at 10-20x my professional pace.
The AI-Powered Development Workflow That's Transforming How I Build Software
How AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Warp have accelerated my development workflow and helped me build Leaderboard Fantasy faster than ever before.
Deploy Your Spring Boot App to Google Cloud in One Command
A step-by-step guide to deploying Spring Boot applications to Google App Engine. From zero to production with gcloud app deploy.