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10 posts across AI & engineering, opinion, and the Ambitious Series.
My Exact Claude Setup for Daily Engineering Work
Every MCP server, every hook, every workflow I've wired together to make AI actually useful in a real codebase.
My OpenClaw Setup: A Personal Digital Assistant
How I built and configured OpenClaw as my personal digital assistant — the hardware, software, and everything in between.
SDD: The AI Coding Workflow Nobody is Talking About Yet
Spec-Driven Development with AI isn't just prompt engineering. It's a different way of thinking about software.
MCP Servers: What They Are and Why You Should Care
Model Context Protocol sounds intimidating. It's just a plug socket for your AI. Here's how I use it daily.
Will Software Engineering Die? My Honest Answer.
Spoiler: No. But the version of it that pays you to Google things all day? Maybe.
AI Makes Bad Engineers Worse (And Great Engineers Great)
It's an amplifier, not a shortcut. I've seen both sides of this firsthand.
The Craft of Engineering is Not Dead. It Just Changed.
Taste, judgment, architecture. These matter more now, not less. Fight me.
Average → Ambitious Engineer: Why I Started This
I was a decent engineer going nowhere fast. Here's the moment I decided that wasn't enough.
Average → Ambitious Dad: What That Even Means
I don't want to be the dad who was always 'busy'. Figuring out what I want to be instead.
Average → Ambitious Health: A Developer's Starting Point
Sitting 10 hours a day and calling it work. My body had opinions about this. Sharing them here.