Some developers treat Claude like autocomplete: paste some code, get some code back, iterate blindly. The gap between a mediocre response and a genuinely great one usually isn't the model — it's how you're prompting it. Here are six concrete techniques, each with a real before/after you can use in the API, Claude Code, or claude.ai.
You've seen this error. npm install fails with ERESOLVE, you search it, find a GitHub issue, copy an overrides snippet into package.json, and the red text disappears on your next run.
Nobody asks what that block actually did.
I hit this exact error yesterday setting up a cloned repo, and instead of moving on once the install we...
Is writing code with an agent the same thing as pair programming?
That question has been going around lately, and there's a practical consequence sitting inside it that I don't see many people chasing down.
On a lot of teams, code that a pair of devs wrote gets a lighter code review.
I personally have never seen that written down anywhere. It's not in a policy doc and no...
Three weeks ago I wrote about the difference between AI training crawlers and AI retrieval
agents:
GPTBot collects data to train models, but it's ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot that fetch
your page live when ChatGPT a...
If you have spent any time building localized agentic workflows using frameworks like LangGraph, you are likely familiar with the cozy comfort of a single-node memory space. In that localized paradigm, state mutations feel completely trivial. Every worker node, supervisor orchestration loop, and tool-us...
Imagine sending 100 from Alice to Bob.
If both accounts are in one database, this is easy: start a transaction, update both balances, and commit. But this example puts Alice in MySQL and Bob in PostgreSQL. One database cannot finish—or undo—the other database's work.
That is the problem two-phase commit, usually called 2PC, tries...