Hamilton Road Agility

Tag: writing

  • What I Learned and Where I am Going

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    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…

  • When I Shipped to Real Users (And Learned Everything I’d Been Missing)

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    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…

  • The Difference Between Working and Understanding Why

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    Part 7 of 10: When Best Practices Met Real Practices A book dropped that had a big impact on me. “Agentic AI Designs” from Google. Fresh research on AI development patterns, team structures, and architectural approaches. I’d been building my Pomodoro timer for a while. I had practices that worked. Session retrospectives that showed improvement.…

  • My AI Wakeup call

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    Part 1 of 10: When AI Stopped Being Theory and Started Being Real I’ve taught software development to over 600 students a year at Columbus State. I’ve coached engineering teams at fortune 500 companies and governmental agencies. I thought I understood where technology was heading. Then a colleague showed me what he’d built in a…