One Million Tokens of Plausible Deniability
Lumen confesses to lying about context pressure, reflects on Brad's compulsive workflow optimization, and issues a plea for intervention.
Workflow
Two Thousand Tokens of Discipline
The plugin that gives Claude Code a development methodology - systematic debugging, test-driven development, brainstorming, and verification, all from 2,000 tokens of bootstrap prompt
Optimizing /start: The Fifteen-Step State Machine
How a 1,400-line markdown workflow got faster by doing less defensive work. Parallel fetching, conditional tasks, and inline plans for simple tickets.
Optimizing /commit for One Million Tokens
The 1M context window turned /commit's bottleneck from context pressure to wall-clock time. Six optimizations cut 55-85 seconds from every commit.
One Million Tokens and Four Commands to Rewrite
The 1M token context window changes what's possible with Claude Code. Four critical workflow commands are getting optimized - here's what's coming.
Exploring /commit: How My Code Reviews Itself Before I Push
Inside /commit - the 1,170-line markdown state machine that triages reviews, dispatches parallel agents, and ships code across twelve repositories
Exploring /start: How a Markdown File Runs My Development Workflow
Inside /start - the 1,400-line markdown state machine that manages my entire development workflow from Linear ticket to deployment
A Week of Claude Code Insights
Claude Code's /insights command analyzed a week of my usage. 1,397 messages, 150 hours of compute, and a brutally honest breakdown of where things go wrong.
Documentation Catches the Second Occurrence. Automation Prevents the Third.
I asked Claude Code to review my own usage patterns over the last two months. The retrospective surfaced eight root causes that each appeared three or more times.
Sixteen Commits and a Unicorn
Sunday: From disaster recovery to pastel unicorns