Notes
Short, dated notes: cost lessons, prompting habits, and small things I picked up building with AI tools. Rougher and quicker than the writing.
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Make two agents plan, then trade their homework
The cheapest quality trick I run: have Cursor and Claude Code each draft a plan, then hand each the other one.
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The meal that explains vibe coding
A friend fed me a dinner she wouldn't describe until after I'd eaten it. I think about that every time I ship code I didn't read.
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A whole tool, between 10pm and 1am
The best thing about this era isn't the big rewrites. It's how cheap it got to scratch a small itch.
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Prompt like you order coffee
Ask for exactly what you want. You can always add the sugar later; you can never take it out.
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The interview I won by not writing code
Everyone reached for a date library. I asked what the user actually needed and answered it with plain integers.
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Set the spend limit before the first prompt
An agent left running on premium models is a great way to donate money to a cloud provider.