CSChetan sinbuildstuff.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 9 min readWhat I learned strapping AI agents onto a nine year old Rails appFor a long while my team's AI setup was a pile of good intentions. Somebody had a CLAUDE.md. Somebody else had Cursor rules copied off a Twitter thread. One developer was trying Kiro and had steering 01R
CSChetan sinbuildstuff.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 5 min readYou can't direct what you can't readI'll just say it: you can't get good at building with AI unless you learned to code first. Every time this comes up, the same objections roll in. Someone mentions the calculator. Someone mentions the 01N
CSChetan sinbuildstuff.hashnode.dev·Jun 17 · 6 min readYour first ten engineers are your culture. You can't patch it at fifty.Every company has a culture page. Free snacks, "we move fast," "we're like a family." Most of it is decoration. Your real culture isn't written down anywhere. It's whatever your first ten engineers do00
CSChetan sinblog.mirova.ai·Jun 15 · 6 min readBeyond the 167 HoursWe talk a lot about the 167 hours. One hour of therapy, and then a whole week of life the therapist never sees. It's a real gap, and it's worth naming. But after listening to enough therapists, I've s00
CSChetan sinblog.mirova.ai·May 19 · 7 min readQuiet progressA therapist I spoke with last month told me something that stuck. "I have a client who's been with me for eight months. I can feel that something has shifted. She can't. And that gap is starting to we00
