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Context management is an underrated habit
How you manage context in a Claude Code session has a direct effect on both your token bill and the quality of what you get back. Do it well and you spend less for better work. An efficient session gives Claude the context it needs to finish the job while removing context that has stopped being useful. That means starting with a lean setup, keeping investigations focused, and deliberately deciding when to continue, compact, or start again. Here are the context management techniques we use on the
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Osborne Saldanha’s practical playbook from running personal agents for trading, health, and investing: isolate one profile per job, separate skills/tools/engines, ground truth outside the model, and gate expensive LLM calls behind cheap logic.
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Meet Compass: Wealthsimple’s AI Teammate
Wealthsimple’s engineering team introduces Compass, an AI teammate that lives in Slack—what it does today, how they built it, and how it is becoming a fast friend for the company.
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Last week I wrote about using AI to edit my videos. My first try was five paragraphs describing WHAT I wanted and HOW I wanted it done. I expected it to one-shot the rest. A lot of people like to talk about one-shotting a task with AI.
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Geocodio explains how a two-person company moved from bash scripts to maintainable internal apps, the system that keeps those tools from rotting, and where they draw the line between building and buying.
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Two Years of Building with AI: An Honest Developer Review
An honest two-year look at AI-assisted development—from ChatGPT to Claude Code—what works, why every change still gets reviewed, and the de-skilling risk.
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Migrating Shop app from React Native to native (2026)
Shopify migrated the Shop app from React Native to Swift and Kotlin, going from proof-of-concept to App Store and Play Store publishes in 12 weeks with AI-assisted engineering.
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Stop Starting Over With Your AI: Durable Memory for AI Agents
Phasoric on why project context evaporates between AI sessions, and how durable memory plus MCP can preserve decisions, history, and reasoning across agent workflows.
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Small Programming Tricks Matter
Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the TCPNODELAY setting and Nagle’s algorithm; knowing the right git incantation to get out of a pickle; or knowing a trick with sed to rewrite a file. In one sense, this is self-evident: anything you know is going to be made up of smaller pieces of knowledge. Of…
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Aleksandar Filipovski, 2026-09-16 See also: John Salvatier’s excellent blog, Reality has a surprising amount of detail I read a comment somewhere that stuck with me, that went something like this:
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How we turned my voice into a skill
Francesco Castronuovo documents building a writing-voice skill from small experiments rather than cloning old posts—keeping uncertainties visible so AI assistance stays attributable and editable.
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Matt Kirkland makes the case that oversized paperbacks can and should be cut into smaller, more manageable volumes. He walks through a simple ten-step process using an X-Acto knife, manila folders, and white glue to split and rebind a book like the 850-page Lonesome Dove into readable chunks.
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Pair programming: still a good idea
Artur Sapek makes the case that pair programming with coding agents remains underrated—why sitting with an agent in a shared problem still beats solo prompting for learning and quality.
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Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
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Making math automatic with Mathy
Gabe Mays introduces Mathy, a free mobile/web drill tool for automatic math practice complementary to Math Academy—built for quick sessions without Anki friction or an account requirement.
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From Scrum to Shape Up in the AI Era
When AI made coding the fastest part of delivery, two-week sprints started to burn the Intrepid Developer team out. Chris Vanderplank describes shifting to a Shape Up-inspired model with longer cycles and appetite-first design.
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I finally figured out how to take notes!Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
Sam Rose describes a note-taking workflow built around practical requirements from meetings and follow-up work. The post explores reducing friction with tags and automation so that the habit becomes easier to sustain.
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