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The Claude Code Engineering series.

9 posts in this series, listed in publish order. Read top to bottom for the full arc, or jump in anywhere.

·10 min read · vibe-coding , cursor , claude-code

How AI coding tools edit code: 6 things from shipping software with real users

What's actually happening when your AI coding tool rewrites a whole file, misses a diff, or loads files you never mentioned.

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·7 min read · cursor , fast-apply , diffs

Why AI coding tools rewrite full files instead of using diffs

Cursor fast apply, Morph, and Aider all converge: full-file rewrites beat diffs under 400 lines. Three reasons rooted in how language models work.

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·7 min read · tutorial , full-stack , reactjs

How I Used Claude Code to Build a Full-Stack React App: A Step-by-Step Development Guide

How I built a full-stack React + Next.js + TypeScript app with Claude Code: each step shows the prompt, what it produced, and what I corrected.

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·8 min read · aider , pagerank , tree-sitter

How Aider's repomap uses PageRank and tree-sitter to rank your codebase

Aider parses your repo with tree-sitter, builds a symbol graph, and runs PageRank to pick which files the LLM should see. Here is how it works.

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·7 min read · issues-md , claude-code , methodology

ISSUES.md as a learning log: the flat-file bug tracker that compounds

ISSUES.md is a flat markdown bug tracker that doubles as a regression detector and training doc for AI-built codebases. How the pattern works.

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·9 min read · lovable , lovable-security , supabase

How to audit a Lovable app after the BOLA disclosure: a 6-hour rotation playbook

Audit checklist I ran on a client's Lovable app after the April 2026 BOLA disclosure, plus the key rotation and Chrome extension SDK migration.

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·7 min read · supabase , supabase-auth , supabase-publishable-key

Migrating to Supabase publishable keys broke my Chrome extension. Here is the fix.

Supabase publishable keys return 401 from hand-rolled fetch. Migration to @supabase/supabase-js with a chrome.storage.local session adapter.

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·8 min read · claude-code , claude-md , lovable

How I document AI-built projects: a CLAUDE.md, ISSUES.md, and prompts/ workflow

Four files that fix the missing context in AI-built codebases: CLAUDE.md, ISSUES.md, a prompts/ folder, and a two-AI handoff workflow.

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·7 min read · methodology , refactoring , lovable

Phased migrations with per-phase verification gates

Big-bang refactors of 6+ files break things you cannot predict. Phased migration with explicit gates catches regressions before they compound.

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