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Better AI coding, one habit at a time.
Notes on building with Claude Code and Codex: what slows AI coding down, what it costs, and what to change.
AI Coding Tips
AI Coding Tip #2: How to keep Claude Code read-only on your production database
Pasting a production database URL into an AI coding session hands the agent full write access to live data. Here's a four-layer setup that lets Claude Code answer data questions while making writes impossible.
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AI Coding
Your job is now babysitting Claude Code. Here's how to do it well.
Anthropic says 20% of its own staff now spend their day managing Claude instead of doing the work. One engineer called it babysitting. That's the new job, and some people are much better at it than others.
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AI Coding Tips
AI Coding Tip #1: How to set up agents to save tokens and increase speed in Claude Code
Stop running every prompt on your most expensive model. Three small subagent files send simple work to cheaper, faster models and keep your main session lean.
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AI Coding
Accenture capped Claude at $29 a month. Caps are the wrong fix for AI spend.
Some Accenture employees were spending $1,000 a month on Claude. Now the cap is $29. A flat limit can't tell productive use from waste, and it hits the best people hardest. Here's what actually drives AI spend, and what to measure instead.
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