Tag: productivity
All the articles with the tag "productivity".
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Surviving the Context Window in Practice
The context window is a budget, not a feature. Auto-compaction hides the bill until the agent starts hallucinating. Practical tactics for staying under budget: scope per session, offload to disk, dispatch subagents for research, and clear aggressively between phases. The goal isn't a bigger window; it's needing less of it.
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The Only Workflow That Works
AI agents amplify whatever engineering process they're given. Bad specs produce confident garbage at machine speed. Three practitioner workflows for separating planning from execution: the normal coding flow, Boris Tane's annotated plan cycle, and Jamon Holmgren's Night Shift spec discipline. The pattern is simple; the discipline is resisting the urge to skip straight to implementation.
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An Opinionated Starting Point for Claude Code Users
A curated configuration for Claude Code that bundles plugins, skills, CLI tools, and sandbox guards into a single install script. What it does, how to use it, and why you should fork it immediately.
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Context Engineering: The Skill That Replaced Prompt Engineering
Your prompt is 0.1% of what the model sees; the other 99.9% is context engineering. A four-layer framework for thinking about prompts, practical guidance on what belongs in context and what doesn't, the invisible context problem from a million-line codebase, and why agent-controlled retrieval beats RAG for cross-file reasoning.
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Everything You Missed in Claude Code While You Weren't Looking
Claude Code has shipped more features in four months than most tools ship in a year. Here's a practitioner's map of everything that changed since Opus 4.5 — rules, skills 2.0, hooks, MCP evolution, remote control, Cowork, plugins, and the dozen slash commands you probably haven't tried yet.