AI Tools
Hands-on guides to the AI tooling stack: coding agents, multi-agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and how to evaluate the fast-moving landscape without getting whiplash.
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The Solo Founder's Weekly Operating Rhythm
Twenty minutes that end the "where did the week go" feeling: a Friday retro (shipped, slipped, surprised) and a Monday plan (three outcomes, calendar-blocked). The cadence a solo founder runs instead of a standup.
Stop Re-Explaining Your Stack to Your AI
You paste the same paragraph about your stack at the top of every AI session, or skip it and get generic answers. Write the context down once in a profile your AI reads on demand, and stop paying the re-explaining tax.
Why Your AI Skills Should Talk to Each Other
Thirty great prompts in a folder is not a system. The value is prompts that know when to call each other: a review that convenes a security pass on auth code, on a concrete trigger, without you remembering to ask.
Make Your AI Code-Review Like a Senior
Most AI reviews hand you twenty nitpicks and miss the one thing that should block the merge. The lane method fixes that: four ordered passes, real severity tiers, and the rule that makes a review feel senior.
Agentic AI Workflows: An Orchestration Guide
Multi-agent systems are no longer demo-ware. The playbook for orchestrating Researcher / Strategist / Writer / Editor / Critic agents in production — and the 70/30 rule for when to use them.
AI Coding Tools Compared: Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Replit, Bolt
A 2026 head-to-head of the AI coding assistants devs actually use. 20+ criteria, real workflow tests, and the calls each tool wins.
How to Choose the Best AI Code Assistant: A Decision Framework
Forget "which is best." The right question is "best for what." A decision tree + scorecard for picking the AI assistant your team will actually use.
A Strategic Guide to AI Tools for Web Developers (2026)
AI tools mapped to the SDLC — from research and architecture through testing and deployment. The durable framework, not the brittle tool list.
Prompt Engineering for Code: Practical Patterns That Work
Beyond "be a senior engineer." The prompt patterns — personas, constraint stacking, examples, chain-of-thought — that turn an AI assistant into a useful pair-programmer.