My First MCP: No More Manual Bug Tickets
This week I shipped my first MCP, and it solved a problem I was tired of pretending was small. I did not want to manually create bug tickets anymore. When I am playtesting and something breaks, c...
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What Did Not Work: AI Spin Loops, Identity Drift, and My Ben/Hiram Naming Debt
This is the uncomfortable companion to the other two posts from this run: Claude Hit 100%, Codex Kept Going From Side Scripts to Infrastructure Those explain what got better. This one is ab...
Should I Build My Own MCP for Trello? Yes, But Keep It Thin
After wiring Trello directly into the game, I kept asking myself the same question: Should I build my own MCP for this, or am I just making extra work? My answer now is yes, build it, but keep it...
From Side Scripts to Infrastructure: Making My Game Toolchain Usable by Other Humans
This is the companion to Claude Hit 100%, Codex Kept Going, and it is really about one practical question: can someone else sit down at this repo and get useful work done without a guided tour? Fo...
Claude Hit 100%, Codex Kept Going: The Week My AI Workflow Became a System
Last week I wrote about usage curves and cost in Claude Max vs Codex Max. This week felt different. I still shipped a lot of work, but the bigger shift was in how I worked. When Claude hit the cap...
Claude Max vs Codex Max: One Week, Eight Agents, Two Very Different Usage Curves
This week I did something slightly irresponsible. I ran eight AI coding agents in parallel against a real codebase, 8-10 hours per day, every day. First with Claude Code CLI on the Max plan. Then ...
When AI Multiplies Velocity — and Chaos: Multi-Agent Lessons from a Real Codebase
I’ve been building a game called All Is Vanity in my spare time. This week I tried something ambitious: running eight AI coding agents simultaneously against the codebase. At first, it felt like u...
The Game I Always Wanted to Make: How AI Let Me Finally Build My Childhood Obsession
I’ve been carrying a game in my head for forty years. Not a design document. Not a spec. Not even a napkin sketch. Just a feeling — the specific feeling of hearing a Commodore 64 say “HEY, TAXI!” ...
Space Taxi In Space: Rebuilding a C64 Classic Around Friendship, Humor, and Procedural Everything
It started with a Commodore 64 in a crawlspace. Behind the water heater, wrapped in a garbage bag from 1990, next to a disk drive we named Jared. The 5.25” floppy still worked. The screen flickered...
Building Squirrel Defense: 4,900 Lines, Zero Sprites, One Afternoon
Every other project from Day 1 was a port. Squirrel Defense was the one I built from nothing — a game I made with my kids. No Haxe source to reference, no level data to transcribe, no existing art ...