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Building AI infrastructure with Claude Code. Documenting the journey from context window overflow to self-documenting systems.

Season 1: 25 days, 8 episodes — ConvoCanvas vision to automated infrastructure (Oct 2025).

Season 2: 5 episodes — validation, parallel testing, the patterns that survive production (Oct 2025).

Season 3: building in public — production AI infrastructure deep-dives, one architectural decision at a time (Feb 2026 →).

Featured

• From Side Project to Platform: How Running Out of Disk Space Led to Rebranding an Entire Platform

  7 Feb, 2026

  3.5 months of silence hid 450 commits, a platform rebrand, 2TB migration, and the transformation from side project to platform engineering discipline.

• Streaming Journals: Kafka Meets LLMs

  11 Feb, 2026

  The automated journal entries were fiction. Every single one. Here's how a broken pipeline got replaced in 10 days — Kafka, vLLM workers, nine code iterations, a context preservation fix, and an LLM-as-Judge quality gate — all tracked through git commits and vault evidence.

• The Day Everything Got Sealed

  11 Feb, 2026

  I exposed my MCP bridge to the internet so Claude.ai could search my vault remotely. Within 26 hours, Cloudflare logs showed 39 searches from 15+ Anthropic IPs — and I had no way to tell what they'd asked for. Here's the incident response that sealed every secret, obfuscated every endpoint, and bootstrapped a proper engineering workflow in the process.

• The Refusal Gate: Teaching a Bot to Say I Don't Know

  10 May, 2026

  How a single score threshold became the difference between a bot that hallucinates and a bot you can trust — and why the architectural decision to refuse synthesis is the same shape as a circuit breaker, a feature flag, and a dead-letter queue.

Recent Posts

• From Interview to Implementation: Perfect 100/100 Anthropic Alignment

  18 Oct, 2025

  BT SRE interview Oct 17th morning (strong networking/Linux, exposed K8s gaps), followed by 5.5 hours implementing Anthropic patterns after work. Achieved PERFECT 100/100 alignment (66→94→100) via parallel execution, enhanced MCP docs, LLM-as-judge, bash tools, subagent pattern, resumable execution. Skills migration Day 5-7 complete (103 tests, 99.4% token reduction). The honest gap - AI-assisted execution masked foundational knowledge. Claude Code rebuilt K3s cluster, but I couldn't explain control plane in interview. Manual rebuild plan to close the gap.

• Three Systems, One Weekend: The Parallel Testing Chronicle

  13 Oct, 2025

  Working with Claude, we shipped three infrastructure systems in 48 hours. Neural Vault crisis forced reindex of 41K docs. Built Journal v3 (8-task pipeline), Hybrid Search (A/B tested), and 7 slash commands - all behind feature flags. Parallel testing revealed hybrid search only 1.7% better despite 27x slowdown. When you can't test everything manually, you architect for failure.

• 54 Minutes to Production: Six Systems in One Day

  12 Oct, 2025

  54 minutes of active work across 14 hours (3 sessions with gap-aware timeline). Six journal automation enhancements deployed - RAG context (30-day search), brag docs (61 accomplishments), emotional tracking (burnout detection), interstitial notes (real-time capture), semantic chunking (102 chunks), automated pipeline. ULTRATHINK diagnosed Prefect silent failure in 45 minutes. Deployed hybrid Cron+Prefect fix in 12 minutes. Created idea-tree system for fast visual brainstorming. Built /blog command with 5-gate quality system. Automation begets automation at maximum meta-level.

• 48 Hours Later: From Validation to Velocity

  11 Oct, 2025

  18.5 hours across 48 hours. Research-backed codebase review (85/100), 5/5 systematic tests, NER enhanced to 163x speedup, 2.5 hours metadata debugging. Not just deployed - validated and improved. The research foundation behind every enhancement. From 85→90 quality score through methodical engineering.

• The Validation Chronicles: 5 Hours of Truth

  9 Oct, 2025

  5 hours debugging temporal search to validate Season 1. Found 0 files from Sept 11, then 9. Found 55 files from Oct 5, wrote 7 episodes. Compression ratio discovered. Then got caught fabricating the timeline in this very episode. Meta level maximum.

• Teaching the System to Blog About Itself

  5 Oct, 2025

  The final episode: Using ConvoCanvas to document its own creation, then publishing with AstroPaper and seamless episode navigation.

• Teaching the System to Document Itself: Automated Architecture Diagrams

  5 Oct, 2025

  From hand-coded Mermaid diagrams to automated architecture visualization. An evening working with Claude to teach the system to document itself.

• When Everything Crashes: The K3s Resurrection

  5 Oct, 2025

  Saturday morning, October 5, 2025. A K3s cluster silently failing for days. 6,812 pod restarts. Working with Claude to diagnose and rebuild everything.