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AI Doesn't Replace Senior Engineers. It Lets You Borrow One.

I've been running a senior reviewer against my own PRs for months. The commits tell the story. Here's the loop.

May 25, 2026

5 min read

TinyOps Speaks MCP Now

I shipped a guardrail product, then I taught it to talk to agents. Here's what that changes — and what it doesn't.

May 25, 2026

4 min read

Building a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm

How I restructured my portfolio into a monorepo with separate frontend and backend packages, deployed to Vercel and...

May 20, 2026

2 min read

Shadow Mode: A Production Dry-Run for Rules

A guardrail rule you've never run is a guess. Shadow mode turns it into evidence — by running the rule for real and...

May 20, 2026

4 min read

I Shipped a Rule Engine. Then I Found Its Identical Twin.

A whole class of TinyOps rules silently did nothing — no error, no failed job. The bug was three missing lines. The...

May 17, 2026

5 min read

Adding an AI Chatbot to My Portfolio

Using LangChain and GPT-4 to build a chatbot that answers questions about my resume and experience.

May 15, 2026

2 min read