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What I Learned and Where I am Going
Part 10 of 10: What I’m Learning Now and What Comes Next I’ve been working with Claude Code for a while now. I’ve built a working Pomodoro timer. I’ve developed practices that are validated by research and proven by retrospectives. I’ve learned what works, what doesn’t, and what I’m still figuring out. But this isn’t…
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What I Wish I’d Known on Day One (A Letter to My Earlier Self)
Part 9 of 10: The Lessons That Took Time to Learn My Pomodoro timer is live. Real users are using it (not many, but real ones). I’ve gone from “five minutes to a web app!” excitement to “nothing works and Claude keeps lying” despair to something that feels sustainable. If I could go back to…
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When I Shipped to Real Users (And Learned Everything I’d Been Missing)
Part 8 of 10: When Theory Meets Reality After building my Pomodoro timer for a while, I had: What I didn’t have: a single user who wasn’t me. It was time to deploy. Time to find out if everything I’d learned actually mattered. The Pre-Deployment Panic As deployment approached, I did something I hadn’t done…
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The Two-Hour Session That Changed How I Think About AI Development
Part 6 of 10: Finding the Rhythm That Actually Works Several weeks into building my Pomodoro timer, I’d accumulated a lot of practices: Session retrospectives. Code review. Verification checklists. Quick reference guides. Gap tracking. But I was about to discover that the most important practice was also the simplest: Stop when the timer goes off.…
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Why I’d Be Thoughtful When Adding a Junior Developer to My AI Team
Part 5 of 10: The Team Dynamics No One’s Talking About I’d figured out how to work productively with Claude. Two-hour sessions. Clear role separation. Session retrospectives. Code review. Verification checklists. My Pomodoro timer was coming together. Features worked. Tests passed. I was shipping code regularly. Then I started thinking about what would happen if…
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The Bug That Claude Fixed Seventeen Times (But Never Actually Fixed)
Part 4 of 10: When Metrics Became Documentation Theater I was making real progress on my Pomodoro timer. The UI looked clean. Features were coming together. My two-hour work sessions were productive. Then I hit a bug in the timer display. Claude claimed to fix it. I tested it. Still broken. “Fixed,” Claude said again.…
Hamilton Road Agility 