My AI Context System: The Sequel
A month-on update to my AI context system — what I added, what I threw away, and why selective automation beat full automation every time.
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Teach the AI to Fish
Why your documentation needs to serve AI agents as first-class readers — and why writing a CLAUDE.md should be as deliberate as choosing a framework.
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Your Theory is the Gold, not your Code.
Naur's 1985 idea that programs are theories in developers' minds reframes what AI-assisted development puts at risk, and why I'm not that worried.
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Here's My AI Context System
A walkthrough of my open-source, markdown-based AI context and memory system, why plain files beat vector databases, how the models have caught up, and how to get it running yourself.
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My Posts Started Looking Like Everyone Else's
How leaning on AI for writing structure turned my blog posts into generic slop, and what I learned about detecting and avoiding it.
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Throwing away my fancy AI memory system
Why a simple markdown-file-based AI memory system outperformed a vector and graph database setup for personal knowledge management.
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I Built Another Thing! (To extract Slack conversations for my “AI memory”)
Building SlackSnap, a Chrome extension that exports Slack conversations as structured markdown to feed into an AI memory system.
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I Built a Thing! (To Transcribe my Meetings)
Building a fully local meeting transcription tool using OBS Studio, FFmpeg, and OpenAI Whisper to replace a non-compliant cloud service.
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My AI Memory System: The Complete Implementation
The full implementation of a persistent AI memory system using Claude Desktop, markdown files, and custom commands for engineering management.
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