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How to Plan and Begin Your First AI-Assisted Coding Session
You don't need to know how to code to build something with AI - but the calm ten minutes you spend planning before you start is what keeps your first session from spiralling. Here's the whole thing, gently: what the tools are in 2026, how to plan, and exactly what your first session looks like.
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How to Write a PRD an AI Can Build From (with a template)
A PRD is the difference between an AI coding tool that guesses and one that builds the thing you meant. Here's what a PRD is, a copyable seven-part template, a worked example, and the two lines that do most of the work - written for the era where the thing reading your spec is an agent, not just your engineering team.
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How I work with Claude Code: PRD to deploy
I write the PRD, we agree an execution plan, pick the environment, get the keys out of the way, prototype, then test. Six steps, same order every time. Here's the real workflow with the files from two things I've shipped, and which model I hand each job to.
Read article - · claude-code · local-llm
The best local coding setup isn't one model: how I route across Claude, Kimi and my own rig
The question I get asked is which local model is best for coding. Wrong question. The setup that works routes three tiers - Claude reasons, Kimi builds, and a Qwen coder on my own rig does the volume for nothing. Here's the whole thing, wired up.
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Moving houtini-lm to vLLM: What I learned
I decommissioned Hopper (my local LLM bootstrapped server) and moved my local models to a two-card 4090 rig with vLLM on Docker. It's so much faster - but houtini-lm spat its dummy. Two bugs, one hiding behind the other, and how v3.2.1 fixes it.
Read article - · Claude · claude-code
From Chat to Deploy: How to Fully Understand Claude, AI Assistants and Claude Code
I started in the chat box like everyone else. Three years later the boring parts of my work run themselves, from PRD to deploy. This is the ladder, stage by stage, with a starter task for each rung.
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Giving Claude a Local Sidekick: a vLLM Journey Update
I want Claude to have a powerful local sidekick through houtini-lm. I'm not there yet, but this month I got noticeably closer - a vLLM rebuild, a benching spree on the 48GB 4090, and a face-off that deleted two models in an evening.
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Claude Code System Requirements (2026): Specs, Setup, Gotchas
Claude Code on Mac, Windows and Linux (2026): the real-world spec, the install gotchas the top guides skip, and how to cut the token bill with a local LLM.
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AI for the CFO: variable cost, vendor sprawl, and the playbook that ends the surprise bill
Uber reportedly provisioned 5,000 engineers with Claude Code in December 2025. By April 2026 it had burned the entire annual AI budget in four months. Variable cost is the new shape of the AI line item, and the CFOs who are getting it under control are running the same four-lever playbook. Here is what is on each lever, which platforms are credible, and what to ship in the next ninety days.
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A beginner's guide to Claude hooks
Claude Code hooks are small scripts that fire automatically at specific moments in a coding session. They give you deterministic control where CLAUDE.md instructions only get probabilistic compliance. This beginner's guide covers what hooks do, the five events you need to know, the exit-code gotcha that catches almost everyone, and the community projects worth installing before you write your own.
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How to set up LM Studio: your first local AI model on your GPU
Turn a gaming GPU into a working local AI model with LM Studio - free, no billing, no API key. The complete beginner path, start to finish.
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How I Cut My Claude Code Token Spend with Houtini LM (Architect, Drafter, QA)
Claude as the architect. A cheap local model as the drafter. Claude QAs everything. The token bill drops as a side-effect of using each model for what it does best. Here is how I run it on my own rig.
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The Best MCP Servers for Claude Code (2026)
The MCP servers I run in Claude Code every day. Rebuilt for the agentic-coding-as-default era - native /agents, the Desktop/Code binary merger, and the local-model offload pattern that keeps long sessions from burning your Anthropic quota.
Read article - · claude-code · claude-desktop
Getting Started with Claude Desktop: a Beginner's Guide (2026)
The first hour with Claude Desktop can be confusing - browser, app, Cowork, Claude Code all at once. Here's how the four modes fit together and where to start.
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