What Clean Architecture Bought Me: a Firebase SQL Connect Trial
Two years after putting repository interfaces between the domain and Firestore, I wanted to swap the database. The Saturday-morning trial that followed turned on a single GraphQL annotation no one promised would work.
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Read article Prompt Harder Isn't a Strategy
Why the most confident advice in AI right now — 'just write a better prompt' — is a category error, and what to do instead.
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Read article The Run I Didn't Take
On the cognitive cost of orchestrating six AI agents at once — and why the answer isn't fewer agents.
17/05/2026
Read article Three AI Tools, One Recommendation, No Clarifying Questions
What I learned asking Claude, Gemini, and Cursor to architect the same new mobile project — and why the tools that agreed with each other weren't necessarily right.
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Read article Splitting the Work: What AI Actually Automated for Me
On learning that the best use of AI isn't making it do the whole job — it's finding the chunk it can actually handle.
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Read article Context Is a Documentation Problem
Why AI coding agents hallucinate less when your codebase explains itself — and what to write to get there.
20/04/2026
Read article Why AI-Enhanced Engineering Works Best With Strong Architecture
How architecture and practical engineering discipline turn AI tooling into sustainable delivery gains.
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