general pattern beginner Use AI Like Seasoning, Not Like Flour Deterministic code is the dish. AI is the seasoning. Most of what we reach for an LLM to do, a regex would handle faster and more honestly. Apr 25, 2026 →
general pattern beginner Don't Have Claude Do Your Taxes Taxes look like a lookup table. They're actually a two-layer problem — and knowing where to draw the line is the whole skill of building with AI. Apr 8, 2026 →
obi-jam pattern intermediate Claude for Thinking, Ollama for Doing Route complex reasoning to Claude API and cheap tasks to local Ollama. Your agent doesn't need its best brain for every message. Mar 14, 2026 →