Every dispatch ever sent, kept on the shelf —
— newest first, in the Count's own hand.
Every dispatch and margin note. Newest first. The Count keeps order.
NoteTeaching CLAUDE.md to 500 engineers at EngX
Two days, 500 engineers, a 90-minute talk on teaching Claude what it can't learn from your code. Here's what crystallizing five years of instincts taught me.
APR 21 · 1 minEveryone
NoteClaude's session limits accidentally fixed my burnout
Anthropic tightened session limits last month and quietly dropped default thinking effort. I'm somehow relieved AND frustrated about it.
APR 15 · 2 minEveryone
NoteClaude won't kill junior engineering jobs
I keep hearing this take and I heavily disagree. But the juniors who don't adapt are going to get left behind.
APR 9 · 2 minEveryone
NoteWhen Claude starts hallucinating, kill the session
Most people don't realize they're 30 minutes into arguing with an AI that stopped listening 20 minutes ago. The fix: throw the session away.
APR 8 · 2 minHands-On
Article👁️ I Built Y'all an App Because My Eyes Were Dying 👁️
Your eyes are probably taking a huge beating. Here's everything I did to fix mine — including a free app I built for you.
APR 4 · 11 minEveryone
NoteDon't let Claude grade its own homework
Most teams think AI code review happens after a PR opens. That's too late. Here's the two-Claude pattern Anthropic uses internally — and how to steal it.
APR 2 · 1 minHands-On
ArticleTwo Prompts That Turn Notion into Your Claude Project's Brain
Copy one prompt, fill in your details, paste into Claude — and your project files are replaced by a single Notion hub that stays in sync automatically.
MAR 30 · 5 minHands-On
Article🗑️ Delete Your Claude Project Files
Claude can read your project files but can't update them. Here's the one-file architecture that fixes it — and why it's better than editable files would've been.
MAR 30 · 6 minEveryone
NoteTeaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking
Two days, hundreds of engineers, a curriculum months in the making. Teaching forced me to crystallize my own thinking on what it means to work agentically.
MAR 24 · 1 minEveryone
Article🔥 Claude Code Is (Seriously) Burning Me Out
I'm more productive than I've ever been in my life. I'm also more burned out than I've ever been in my life. Those two things are not a coincidence.
MAR 22 · 4 minEveryone
Article🌻 You're Wasting Your Best Engineering Skill
You're incredible at writing code. But you've stopped doing the thing that actually matters — and you don't even realize it.
MAR 8 · 7 minEngineering
Article🧛 Stop Reading Every Line of Code!
If you keep reviewing things like it's 2016 in 2026, your process is going to break.
MAR 1 · 7 minEngineering