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AI Amnesia
The Amnesia Problem Imagine my day, I'm working away happily in a codebase, I need Claude to help me with something, so I spend ten minutes of the conversation explaining how the system works - how the digest pipeline delivers emails, why the metrics API has that weird caching layer, what …
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Making AI write code like I do
Making AI write code like I do I'm reviewing a PR from a colleague who used Cursor. The code works... the tests pass... but half my review comments are things we agreed on months ago - use structlog not print, pytest not unittest, type hints on public functions. The AI wrote …
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Book Tracking 2026
For 2025 I got lazy tracking books I was reading. I tried relying on the kindle-goodreads connection but I hate it so much. I had a script that could convert a goodreads export into the format I needed for this site but it was a pain in the arse and …
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Keeping your AI code assistants under control...
As AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf become integral to our workflows, they bring incredible productivity gains. But they also introduce new risks. Without proper guardrails, an AI tool might make unauthorised changes, ignore project-specific conventions, or create security vulnerabilities. Each project ends up with its own interpretation …
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Multiple Claude Code Accounts
I can't be the only person to use Claude Code for both work and home who wants to keep them separate from each other - if only to keep on top of context windows and 5hr limits... Well there's no official way to do it, and it doesn't look promising... I've …
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Beware: rabbit holes
A few weeks ago - no lets be honest, a few months ago - we bought a massive bulk lot of second hand Lego from FB marketplace. We know for a fact there's a number of sets in there, so the plan was to sort them out and see what we could …