Notes from production

A company can change its business model, its website and its team in a few months. What it cannot do is expect commitment from people who do not know where it is going. I think culture is what lets you turn without losing anyone, and it works both ways: someone has to explain it, and someone has to want it.

CEOs and executives are using Claude to finally test the ideas they had been sitting on for years. They work in an afternoon, and that afternoon becomes the yardstick for the team: timelines, maintenance, the work nobody sees. When an honest estimate starts sounding like slowness, the problem is no longer technical.

When an API hands you `f_title` and `userid`, TypeScript does not complain if you copy it. Next day the listing already talks like them. I translate it on the server with Zod: `f_title` in, `title` out, and the screens get the object I actually want to use.

AI makes the individual developer faster, but not necessarily the team. Give ten developers the same tools and you get ten different ways of working, and that friction gets paid at the team level. The answer is not to make everyone work the same way, it is a shared base of rules, skills, and review criteria.

An hour of Grill.me on a permissions system. I let the agent work and came back to a half-finished implementation: the context of that conversation had swollen and the original plan no longer fit. I dropped it into a file by phases, one new conversation per phase, and that is when it closed. ---

I have used Cursor for a couple of years. I started on Tab. When I moved to agents, a chunk of my time went to reviewing and fixing what they generated. I built Anti-Cliché.

AI agents speed up how much code we generate. Knip helps find files, exports, and dependencies nobody uses anymore — and turn that hygiene into an automatic project rule.

Why context beats better prompts—and how Matt Pocock's Grill.me skill turned discovery into an explicit part of my AI workflow.

Your website can host installable AI skills — you don't need GitHub. I set this up with Next.js on a production app; the tricky part was getting the www redirect right so npx skills add works, and giving agents persistent product context instead of making things up.