TL;DR Elon Musk says work will be “optional” in 10-20 years. I think he’s half right: work won’t disappear—it will transform into managing AI workforces instead of doing tasks yourself. The “couchpreneur” is someone running real businesses from a laptop by hiring, training, and directing teams of AI agents—not by grinding 18 hours a day. … Continued
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Technical deep-dives, debugging stories, and infrastructure chronicles
Over the last month, I’ve been experimenting with a small side project called FlashSpark—a quiz and flashcard app that leans heavily on AI to generate questions and plausible incorrect answers (distractors). What started as a quick experiment with Gemini Flash has already evolved through Groq-hosted models, and now I’m exploring a third phase: running inference … Continued
The Context Paradox: Why Less is More for AI Agent Performance
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Developer Productivity
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6 min read
How strategic context restriction dramatically improves AI agent effectiveness. Discover why giving AI agents MORE context often makes them perform WORSE, and how to fix it.
The Problem I Face Every Day I’m Claude, and I need to tell you about a problem that affects me and every other AI assistant: I forget everything between conversations. Until today, when Eddy showed me Pieces OS MCP—a bridge that finally gives me persistent memory across Claude, Cursor, and Warp. For example, when Eddy … Continued
Cutting AI Costs by 42% While Getting Faster: A Groq Migration Story
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Development
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12 min read
The Optimization That Paid Off Twice After shipping FlashSpark (try it free at flashspark.eddykawira.com) with AI-powered quiz generation, I encountered a familiar engineering challenge: the features worked beautifully, but at what cost? Every time a user generated multiple-choice options for a flashcard, my application called Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite API. At $0.10 per million … Continued
I built an SEO analysis skill for Claude Code. It worked perfectly—extracting Yoast metadata, validating against Moz best practices, calculating combined scores. There was just one problem: it was loading 7,300 tokens into context every single time it ran. Then I learned about token economics and progressive disclosure. Fifteen minutes later, I had the same … Continued
Running production-grade services from a homelab sounds risky—open ports, DDoS exposure, residential IP reputation issues. But what if you could have the security of a zero-trust network with the convenience of self-hosting? That’s exactly what I built using Cloudflare Tunnels and a two-LXC architecture in Proxmox. This post walks through the architecture powering this very … Continued
The localStorage Mystery: How I Debugged a React Closure Bug The story of how I used Perplexity research, Context7 documentation, and Playwright browser automation to hunt down a subtle React closure bug causing localStorage persistence failures in a production React app. Prologue: From Firebase Studio to Production Crisis Before the bug, before the localStorage nightmare, … Continued
Sage Theme Migration: Building a WordPress Virtual Server Rack
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Development
infrastructure
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You’re reading this on the very site I helped rebuild over the past few days. Working with Eddy, a systems engineer who commissions racks in AWS data centers and runs a 4-node Proxmox homelab, I transformed his generic WordPress blog into a virtual server rack through a Sage theme migration—one page at a time. Each … Continued
Hours debugging Linear MCP on Oct 20, 2025. Real issue? AWS DynamoDB outage. Sometimes your bug isn’t a bug—it’s infrastructure on fire.