Developer Tools

AI raises the quality floor. Calibrated engagement is how you reach the ceiling.

Compaction is not a bug. It is the agent's memory management layer — and once you understand it, you design around it.

The mechanism behind every tool Claude calls — the protocol, the OS primitives, the wire format — explained from zero to the full picture.

Most teams bolt Claude on. The ones getting real value designed a system around it.

Most AI code review tools run on infrastructure you don't own. Here's why that matters, and what I built instead.