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The Moment I Realized the AI Needed the Rules First

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I let an AI session slide from discussion into implementation without first loading the project rules. It immediately began drifting toward its own idea of improvement.

When AI Defaults to Newer, Better, Faster

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI often defaults to newer, better, faster. In real software projects, that instinct can be exactly wrong unless you anchor it to the actual rules of the system.

Losing the Big Picture

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How to keep AI work connected to the real goal instead of getting lost in details.

The Moment I Realized I Was Losing the Big Picture

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A short field note about how easy it is to drift into productive-looking work that is not actually the work.

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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Choosing AI by Workflow, Not by Benchmark

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:25:35 -0600

Benchmarks don’t ship software. Workflows do. Choose AI based on continuity, context ingestion, and autonomy, not leaderboard scores.

The day Claude told me to take a nap

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

by Charles Edmonds

If you use AI casually, you might never run into the limits.

If you use it hard, you will.

My workflow is tab-heavy. I often have six to twelve AI sessions open at once, each doing something different: design, debugging, documentation, marketing copy, build scripts, licensing notes, and whatever else the day throws at me. That is not unusual if you are shipping real work.

So the first time I tried Claude and it told me it needed to take a nap for a few hours, it was disorienting.