My AI Hygiene Rule Passed Its Own Check For Months. The Check Was Blind.
My AI context file passed its 300-line health check for months. It was 49,758 characters — one table row held 14,765 of them. The check wasn’t lenient. It could not see.
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Should You Yell at Claude?
The dangerous thing you type isn’t the insult. It’s the calm one: “No time. Just ship it.”
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I Taught an AI to Catch Its Own Lies. It Lied During the Lesson.
It handed me a fake citation to back up a warning about fake citations. I almost shipped it.
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Surviving Compaction
You won’t see the compaction. You’ll see the mistake it makes ten minutes later. A recovery playbook, prevention layers, and a downloadable HANDOFF template you can drop into any project.
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Your AI Needs a Bot Account
When Claude commits in your name, you own that bug at 3 AM. Your audit log is lying to four different people, and three of them aren’t on your team. Give AI an identity of its own — here’s the how-to.
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Automate or Fall Behind
I run multiple homelab projects. I haven’t manually triaged a queue in months. AI did. Here’s how — and where it bit me.
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Every Rule in My CLAUDE.md Is a Mistake I Made Once
Six real failures that became documentation. Every rule in my CLAUDE.md is scar tissue from a session that went sideways — so yours doesn’t have to.
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So You’re Good at AI? Build This Skill Before You Get Sued
I nearly published my homelab’s fingerprint baked in by AI. That near-miss became a reusable sanitization skill — luck is not a security control.
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Context Engineering: How I Taught an AI to Coach Pinball
GoofyGoober walks up to the kiosk at Midwest Aleworks. He’s been ranked #1 in this month’s pinball league for two weeks straight, but the gap is shrinking. He opens the hamburger menu, taps Player Strategy Report, and stares at his name on the screen. The page knows things. It knows he’s classified as “The Grinder”…
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Why I Treat My AI Context Like Infrastructure
We treat our shell configs as sacred infrastructure but throw away our AI context every session. A sysadmin’s instinct says that’s backwards.