Andrew Wagnerdrewag.me
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Working with AI

3 posts on this topic.

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I Stopped Looking at My Code. I Found a Joy of Discovery.

I built a side project, a silly alarm app, without ever reading the code. I lost some control and mastery along the way. I also found a joy of discovery that my careful, controlled programming life had never had.

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I Get More Out of Claude Code by Leaving

I told Claude Code I was stepping out for a while, and it did some of my best work of the week. Here's the trick, and the skill I built so I can reach for it on purpose.

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I Keep Avoiding the Thing I'm Best At

Burnout made it easy to stop reviewing AI's work, the one thing I'm most valuable for. That left me with a harder question: when am I avoiding something because it doesn't matter, and when am I avoiding it precisely because it does?