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Published: Jan→May 2026
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Jan 9, 2026 10 min Part 01 of 09

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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Jan 16, 2026 7 min Part 02 of 09

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.

Jan 26, 2026 7 min Part 03 of 09

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.

Feb 20, 2026 8 min Part 04 of 09

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.

Feb 27, 2026 7 min Part 05 of 09

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.

Apr 21, 2026 9 min Part 06 of 09

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

Audit a Lovable app after the BOLA disclosure: exposure checks, Supabase key rotation, Chrome extension SDK migration, and pre-revoke verification.

Apr 23, 2026 7 min Part 07 of 09

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

sb_publishable_* keys return 401 from hand-rolled fetch. Migration to @supabase/supabase-js plus a chrome.storage.local session adapter for Manifest V3. 158 lines of HTTP became 67.

Apr 28, 2026 8 min Part 08 of 09

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.

May 1, 2026 8 min Part 09 of 09

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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