Vibes-checking AI output is the new bottleneck. What actually moved my Claude Code performance: terminal permissions for the agent, a test requested with every feature, and a no-stop rule until they pass.
Cowork gets written off as Claude Code for people who don’t code. I use it for architecture work and multi-file debugging, and this is how I keep the context window lean, why I stay in plan mode, and which repeat jobs I turned into skills.
Claude Code is not only for refactoring PHP. Three things I run through it that never touch a codebase: LaTeX decks kept in Git, cross-app search over Slack and Notion, and prospect research.
Woo ran a Bug Blitz: support engineers with Claude Code and Copilot shipped over 170 fixes across 20 products, every line reviewed by quality engineers. Why it worked and what to copy.
LLMs forget your stack the moment you close the tab. Here is what actually sticks: a project rules file in the repo, global rules for your own preferences, and MCP when the assistant needs data from outside the codebase.
One LLM cannot draft emails, read documents and optimize a sales pipeline well. A look at splitting the work across reasoning, orchestration and execution layers, with TD learning doing the sequential decisions.
Bigger context windows do not fix agent reasoning. Notes on context rot, compaction and folding, the harness that wraps the model, and why agents should pass distilled artifacts instead of raw traces.
WordPress 7.0 ships three pieces of AI plumbing: the Abilities API for registering what a site can do, the AI Client for provider-agnostic model calls, and the MCP Adapter that exposes both to assistants like Claude.
Two bad defaults for agent UIs: hide everything behind a spinner, or stream every raw log. What I map instead, and how I decide which agent decisions a user actually needs to see.
The Bits-over-Random Metric compares your retrieval against random chance, which is how you catch the context pollution a high Success@K hides. Notes on staged tool routing and where the collapse regime starts.