What working with AI actually looks like — from a Sydney nurse, an ECT, and an indie dev.https://stonemegan.dev/en-auhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-day-i-stopped-pasting-full-files-into-the-ai-prompt/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-day-i-stopped-pasting-full-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.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/aura-week-3-the-bug-i-could-not-even-describe-to-the-ai/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/aura-week-3-the-bug-i-could-not-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.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/what-i-throw-away-after-a-week-of-ai-assisted-coding/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/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.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/owna-templates-using-ai-alongside-not-inside/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/owna-templates-using-ai-alongside-not-inside/How I use AI with OWNA templates without breaking them: a Sydney ECT's draft-outside, hand-condense workflow after two paste-induced sync errors in one month.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-observation-an-ai-could-not-help-me-write/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-observation-an-ai-could-not-help-me-write/Can AI write childcare observations? The day a two-year-old broke six weeks of silence, the AI mis-tagged the whole story, and why I wrote it by hand instead.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/using-ai-for-parent-comms-when-families-do-not-read-english/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/using-ai-for-parent-comms-when-families-do-not-read-english/How I use AI for parent communication when families don't read English: a Sydney ECT's plain-language workflow, the words AI gets wrong, and what I never automate.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-clinical-question-i-will-not-ask-an-ai-and-why/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-clinical-question-i-will-not-ask-an-ai-and-why/A patient's grapefruit question taught me why you shouldn't ask AI about medication interactions. The one rule a Sydney RN now follows on every shift.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-i-draft-patient-sms-reminders-by-hand-not-with-ai/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-i-draft-patient-sms-reminders-by-hand-not-with-ai/A Sydney RN on why I draft patient SMS reminders by hand, not with AI: voice consistency, disclosure, privacy, and the six-template library that cut my error rate.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/how-my-content-agent-invented-a-uk-nurse-persona-for-a-post/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/how-my-content-agent-invented-a-uk-nurse-persona-for-a-post/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.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-first-time-the-ai-coding-tool-lied-to-me-about-an-api-su/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-first-time-the-ai-coding-tool-lied-to-me-about-an-api-su/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.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-my-daily-7am-blog-cron-silently-skipped-for-three-days-a/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-my-daily-7am-blog-cron-silently-skipped-for-three-days-a/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.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/drafting-eylf-learning-stories-with-ai-the-format-i-keep-the/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/drafting-eylf-learning-stories-with-ai-the-format-i-keep-the/How I write EYLF learning stories with AI: the 5-block format I hand the model every time, and the child-voice lines I always rewrite by hand.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/five-curriculum-ideas-from-the-ai-why-i-picked-the-one-tied/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/five-curriculum-ideas-from-the-ai-why-i-picked-the-one-tied/I used AI for lesson planning in early childhood education to brainstorm five sustainability themes for 3-4s, then picked the one our yard could actually hold.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-4-things-i-check-before-any-ai-drafted-clinical-note-goe/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-4-things-i-check-before-any-ai-drafted-clinical-note-goe/A Sydney RN's 4-point routine for what to check before signing an AI-generated nursing note: identifiers, drug data, numbers and attribution — under NMBA accountability.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-clinical-topic-where-the-ai-was-a-year-behind-and-how-i/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/the-clinical-topic-where-the-ai-was-a-year-behind-and-how-i/An AI handed me an outdated SABA-only asthma pathway. Is the AI safe to use for nursing? Here is the verification habit I now run on every AI clinical answer.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/when-i-do-not-reach-for-the-ai-the-cases-that-need-hands-not/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/when-i-do-not-reach-for-the-ai-the-cases-that-need-hands-not/A walk-in with central chest pain. I went to the ECG, not a prompt. When nurses should not rely on AI: the clinical layer where typing is the error.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/writing-better-patient-education-handouts-with-an-ai-assista/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/writing-better-patient-education-handouts-with-an-ai-assista/An AHPRA-registered RN shares the actual AI prompts I use to write patient education handouts at a 6th-grade reading level, plus the safety edits I add by hand.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-i-stripped-every-ai-brand-name-out-of-my-own-blog-after-/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-i-stripped-every-ai-brand-name-out-of-my-own-blog-after-/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.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-i-killed-my-first-nurse-tooling-project-before-i-wrote-a/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/why-i-killed-my-first-nurse-tooling-project-before-i-wrote-a/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.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diaryhttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/documenting-child-learning-observations-with-ai-assist-witho/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/documenting-child-learning-observations-with-ai-assist-witho/I tried writing child observations with AI and deleted my first three. Here is the before-and-after, the guardrail prompt, and how I keep my teacher voice.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/ai-assisted-nursing-handoff-notes/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/ai-assisted-nursing-handoff-notes/An evening clinic. Twelve note types still to write. I built an AI-assisted tool to draft them. Then an iron-infusion record nearly went out incomplete.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTnurse-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/ai-parent-newsletter-iteration/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/ai-parent-newsletter-iteration/A Friday at 5:40pm. Blank newsletter template. Twenty minutes of blinking cursor. Four prompts later, the AI sounded like me — not a corporate chain.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTece-aihttps://stonemegan.dev/blog/aura-week-1-with-an-ai-coding-tool/https://stonemegan.dev/blog/aura-week-1-with-an-ai-coding-tool/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.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdev-diary