Your AI Harness Is Hand-Crafted. That's the Problem.

Your AI Harness Is Hand-Crafted. That's the Problem.

Stanford’s Meta-Harness paper argues that optimizing the code around the model matters more than optimizing the model itself. I applied it to my Claude Code setup and got the first real numbers: 3,723 tokens always in context, with no evidence they’re the right ones.

March 31, 2026 · 10 min · Maroffo
AI Didn't Reduce My Cognitive Load. It Moved It.

AI Didn't Reduce My Cognitive Load. It Moved It.

Everyone says AI makes developers faster. My experience is the opposite: I arrive exhausted not because I wrote more code, but because I evaluated more decisions. The effort didn’t shrink. It transformed.

March 6, 2026 · 11 min · Maroffo
When Your AI's Second Brain Starts Talking Back

When Your AI's Second Brain Starts Talking Back

Three layers of knowledge integration between Obsidian and Claude Code: from write-only vault to a feedback loop that promotes patterns into skills.

February 26, 2026 · 10 min · Maroffo
The Missing Step: What a Colleague's Hint Taught Me About AI-Driven Planning

The Missing Step: What a Colleague's Hint Taught Me About AI-Driven Planning

Structured requirements, deviation rules, and the art of selective theft: five concepts borrowed from GSD, twenty rejected.

February 19, 2026 · 10 min · Maroffo
When Your AI Skills Library Gets Too Smart for Its Own Context Window

When Your AI Skills Library Gets Too Smart for Its Own Context Window

From token optimization to an orchestrated development workflow with Claude Code: teaching an AI your patterns is only part of the problem.

February 12, 2026 · 13 min · Maroffo
I Built an Italian Prison Monitor in 9 Days with AI

I Built an Italian Prison Monitor in 9 Days with AI. Here's What Broke.

A personal project that started as “can I automate an RSS digest?” and became a full-stack monitoring platform with narrative memory, semantic search, and AI-generated editorial commentary.

February 6, 2026 · 15 min · Maroffo
From Skills to Shipping: Building with Claude as a Pair Programmer

From Skills to Shipping: Building with Claude as a Pair Programmer

Another chapter in our automation journey at Wishew, where we bridge the gap between project management and development workflows, and discover what happens when your AI pair programmer actually knows your patterns.

November 30, 2025 · 13 min · Maroffo
From Asking Claude to Code to Teaching Claude Our Patterns: Building Modular AI Skills

From Asking Claude to Code to Teaching Claude Our Patterns: Building Modular AI Skills

The best way to work with AI isn’t to ask it to write code: it’s to teach it your patterns first.

November 9, 2025 · 17 min · Maroffo