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Using AI
7 posts tagged Using AI.
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June 15, 2026 · Leif
AI is a calculator. You still own the code.
How I actually use AI to build: the mindset, the tips and hacks I use day to day, and the opinions about MCP, skills, autonomy, and shipping that I will argue with you about.
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June 12, 2026 · Leif
Why agents want a CLI, not an MCP
Why the command line is the interface I build for AI agents in development, and where MCP and skills actually belong.
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June 9, 2026 · Leif
Stop meeting, start building
AI made building cheap, so the excuse to sit in meetings instead of shipping is gone.
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June 6, 2026 · Leif
Give the agent its own VM
Where you let an autonomous AI agent run matters more than what you let it do, and isolation is what buys you the freedom to give it real autonomy.
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June 3, 2026 · Leif
A conversation is a path
How I steer an AI session by treating the conversation as a path: retrace wrong turns, keep steering instead of restarting, and fan out once the context is rich.
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May 31, 2026 · Leif
Getting an AI up to speed
Getting good output from an AI is mostly an onboarding problem, so here is how I build context and set the target before it does any real work.
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May 28, 2026 · Leif
Trusting code I didn't read
How I trust AI-written code I never read line by line, using confidence ratings and a stack of cheap verification signals.