Tag: ai
All the articles with the tag "ai".
Done-ish
I let an AI agent work through my backlog over a weekend. I came back to 66 pull requests and still had to decide what was worth doing.
Burning the 3:40 AM Window
Fable 5 costs 2x Opus and burns like 6x. I spent a month learning to ration my wishes.
Parachuting In
I don't hand-write code anymore. The hard parts didn't go away.
Two tables
Waiting tables taught me something about managing multiple AI agents. Including when to stop taking on more.
You can't borrow muscle memory
I copied 27 Claude commands and realized it wasn't doing me any favors.
You can use AI every day and still not get better
Working with AI isn't a binary skill. It's an instrument that requires deliberate practice.
Ideas Die in Drafts
Some of my best ideas used to die before anyone saw them. That's changing.
Wider, Not Faster
Working with AI changed what I'm willing to attempt. It also changed me.
The AI Prisoner's Dilemma
AI coding tools are everywhere, and each step feels reasonable. But what if we're all caught in an AI prisoner's dilemma, where individual choices lead to an uncertain future for our craft?
I made a game with AI and I don't know how to feel about it
I built a sprint-planning game with AI over a weekend. Making it was more fun than playing it, and left me unsure what that means for the craft.