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The Day I Stopped Pasting Whole Files Into the AI Prompt
Should I paste the whole file into an AI coding assistant? I did for two weeks, the model invented functions, and pasting less code dropped hallucinations to near zero.
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Aura Week 3: The Bug I Couldn't Even Describe to the AI
Voice transcription was 60% accurate in dev and 92% in prod. Same code. Three days of describing it to an AI taught me when AI can't help you debug.
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What I Throw Away After a Week of AI-Assisted Coding
I killed four AI-built features in one week. The pattern that decides when to throw away AI-generated code, and the 30-minute spec note that now prevents the rewrite.
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When my content agent invented a fake author persona
A post-mortem on how my own AI content agent invented a fake author persona — a credentialed nurse byline — on a post about my work, and the two guards that stopped it.
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The first time the AI coding tool lied to me about an API
An AI coding tool hallucinated a method that doesn't exist while I built Aura. It cost me 45 minutes. Here's the exact bug and the rule it taught me.
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Why my 7am blog cron silently skipped for three days
A launchd job silently skipped daily for three mornings while reporting exit 0. The cause: a ThrottleInterval sitting too close to the 24h cadence with no safe margin.
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Why I Stripped Every AI Brand Name Out of My Blog
I named one AI tool everywhere before launch, then deleted every mention. Whether you should name brand names in blog posts is a reader-trust call, not SEO.
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Why I Killed My Nurse-Tooling Side Project Before Coding
An RN and indie dev on when to kill a side project before building: the privacy wall that ended my clinical-note tool before a single line of integration code.
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Aura week 1: I killed my voice-first ECT app on day 14
Two weeks. 60 commits. One 4-hour bubble bug. Then I killed the project. What the AI coding tool got right, and what I should have checked first.
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