Tooling

Four Tools in Three Weeks: What Building With AI Actually Looked Like

Four real products — a multi-cloud tag and storage tool, a resume tailor, an OKR tracker, and the planning system underneath all of it — built and shipped in about three weeks. What made it fast, what I got wrong, and what AI still can’t do for you.

Building Cairn: Wiring GSD, Beads, and Context-Mode Together

How working with Claude reshaped my workflow, the two plugins I can’t work without, and the plugin I built — now called Cairn — to make them, every issue tracker I touch, and my context-mode memory agree on one source of truth.