Elevate Your Code

For weeks, I had a sprint planning prompt saved in a file. Every other Monday, I’d copy it, paste it into Claude, feed it the sprint names, and generate a

We’re all learning how to scale AI adoption in real-time. I’ve been exploring Claude Skills as a way to standardize AI workflows across teams – think reusable templates that capture

My job isn’t just to generate ideas, it’s to de-risk them. In my recent planning work, I used two specific techniques to catch failure points before we wrote a single

Speed without direction is just noise. To prevent my AI sessions from spiraling into chaos, I enforce a strict “Layered Decision” protocol. Layer 1: The Big Picture (No Code Allowed)

When I plan with AI, I don’t treat it like a search engine. I treat it like a junior engineer during a handoff. Here are 2 rules I live by

I had the privilege of working on a mission-critical SDK that powers third-party ticketing integrations through 8th Light. I taught the team to shift from thinking in isolated tickets to

In the rush to adopt AI, too many companies treat LLMs like magic code generators. They skip the architecture and go straight to execution. As a Senior Engineer, I’ve learned

For the last eight years, I’ve worked as a software engineer in consulting. I’ve worn every hat available. In consulting, success is rarely just about the code; it’s about how

A Senior Engineer’s instinct is to solve problems at the source, not the symptom. If a function returns malformed data, we don’t just write a cleanup script; we investigate the

From Script to Prototype: Architecting a Multi-Agent Quorum for Financial Sentiment In the rush to deploy AI, it is easy to grab a pre-trained model off the shelf, run pipeline(),

Does a change in news sentiment predict a change in the stock price? This is the holy grail question of algorithmic trading. As an engineer moving into the AI space,

A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout, is a great read for anyone who wants to understand what actually causes systems to be complex and in turn, how to