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Writing about building.

Practical notes on AI, data, and the tools that make ambitious work feel lighter.

Stop using MCP, use CLI instead

MCPs are powerful, but their context bloat makes AI agents less efficient. Here’s why CLIs are a better interface for tool use.

AI automates a lot, but it quickly devolves into tedious context engineering. Snowball automates the context management engineering.

Opencode commands turn my parallel agentic worktree coding sessions into one-liners. 3-4X faster.

How I manage all my prompts in a Git repository.

How I get 2-3X the productivity from parallel coding agents.

Introducing my new blog where I share thoughts on AI, engineering, data science, technology, and more.