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Engineering notes on AI agents, automation, and the infrastructure behind them.
GitHub Issue Management AI: Build Claude-Powered Triage That Works
Build github issue management ai with Claude: webhook, tool use, labels, duplicate detection, and confidence thresholds. Three automation levels, real cost numbers. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Migrate Zapier to Make: A Practitioner's Migration Guide (2026)
How to migrate Zapier to Make.com without breaking production: 6-step strategy, concept mapping, cost math, and the gotchas nobody warns you about. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Your AI Content Tool Knows Your Strategy. Do You?
Every prompt you send contains business context. Brand voice docs, competitive positioning, internal strategy. Most AI tools promise not to look at it. There is already technology that replaces trust with proof. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Automate Content Publishing with Make.com: One Article to Five Platforms
Automate content publishing with Make.com. Build a Notion to LinkedIn, Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium, X pipeline with canonical links and structured output. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Self-Hosted LLM on Kubernetes: A Production vLLM Deployment
Complete self-hosted LLM Kubernetes guide. Deploy vLLM on GPU nodes with manifests, HPA, monitoring, and cost modeling. Practitioner notes included. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Claude Code SDK Agents: Build Production Agents Without the Loop
Claude Code SDK agents give you file tools, bash, MCP, and subagents for free. Here's when to use the SDK vs the raw Claude API, with real code. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
RAG Pipeline Tutorial: Build a Production Document Q&A System with Qdrant and Claude
End-to-end RAG pipeline tutorial. Qdrant + Claude Sonnet 4.6 + local embeddings. Real code for chunking, retrieval, augmentation, and citation-grounded answers. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Spend Your Human Thinking Tokens Where They Compound
More automations running. More agents deployed. More pipelines humming. But the biggest improvement wasn't adding more automation — it was getting honest about where my thinking actually matters. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
n8n Self-Hosting Guide: Docker, Kubernetes, and Bare Metal in Production
Production n8n self-hosting guide with three deployment paths: Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and bare systemd. Real configs, backups, scaling numbers. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Build MCP Server TypeScript: Complete Tutorial with Claude
Build MCP server TypeScript tutorial. Ship a production model context protocol server with the typescript mcp sdk, stdio transport, zod validation, and Claude mcp integration. Download the free AI Automation Checklist.
Claude Extended Thinking: How budget_tokens Is Billed (Real Costs)
Extended thinking bills as output tokens. What budget_tokens controls, real cost per request, and the Node.js setup with a copyable cost table.
Claude API Structured Output: 3 Patterns for Guaranteed JSON
Clean JSON from Claude every time: tool use as schema contract, assistant prefill, stop sequences. When each pattern wins and what breaks them.