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Thoughts on Christian Voluntarism, technology, and personal growth
The Best Code I Wrote Was the Code I Deleted
Five hours with Claude trying to build testcontainer pooling for Rust. A deadpool implementation that saved nothing. 200 lines of daemon architecture. Then Claude offhandedly mentioned the reusable-containers feature it knew about all along. CI dropped from 7m30s to 5m30s. AI assistants follow your framing. Frame the problem wrong, and they'll efficiently help you build the wrong solution.
Why I Call It "Intelligence Augmentation," Not "Artificial Intelligence"
The term "artificial intelligence" is a lie. Not in the sense that these tools don't work. They obviously work. I use them every day. But the phrase itself creates expectations that don't match reality, and those false expectations lead to bad decisions, wasted resources, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what we're actually building. I started calling it "Intelligence Augmentation" instead. Not as a branding exercise or a hot take, but because that's what it actually is.
Almost Building a Production Microblog in One Weekend: The Receipts
Most people claim they built something with AI. Few show the receipts. Here's what it actually looks like to build a full-stack microblog with AI assistance, complete with git commits, test coverage, and honest reflections on what worked and what didn't.