Tag: automation
All the articles with the tag "automation".
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Three Systems, One Weekend: The Parallel Testing Chronicle
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.
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54 Minutes to Production: Six Systems in One Day
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.
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Teaching the System to Blog About Itself
The final episode: Using ConvoCanvas to document its own creation, then publishing with AstroPaper and seamless episode navigation.
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Teaching the System to Document Itself: Automated Architecture Diagrams
From hand-coded Mermaid diagrams to automated architecture visualization. An evening working with Claude to teach the system to document itself.
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ChromaDB Weekend: From 504 to 24,916 Documents
A weekend implementing ChromaDB, a Monday demoing it at work, and discovering that 1,142 files need more than folders - they need semantic search.