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Software engineering,AI agents &the tools between them.

Field notes from an engineer moving from the browser to the model: agents, harnesses and developer tooling — built, broken and measured in public.

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Rebuilding my local AI development environment

A working log: auditing a Claude Code setup that had grown by accretion, pruning it against what Boris Cherny, Addy Osmani and Anthropic's own docs actually recommend, and rebuilding it as a harness — minimal context, deterministic guardrails, visible state.

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    TERMINAL — ~/dev$ claude> audit plugins · skills · mcp> prune 7 duplicate skills> hook PreToolUse → guard.sh> verify npm testCONTEXT38%HOOKS · SKILLS