Brandon Casci

I keep seeing the AI iceberg diagram.

2026-08-24 What the AI Hype Taught Me to Ignore I started with AI as autocomplete and worked my way up to handing whole tasks to agents.

2026-07-29 The Afternoon I Was the Whole Team You’ve heard this, and so have I.

2026-07-10 A Learning Loop That Makes My Agent Wiser Over Time My coding agent kept solving the same problems twice.

2026-06-18 I Run a Company by Writing It Down Yes, AI can write code.

2026-06-12 Two UI Migrations and 56 Million Tokens Later, Claude Fable Still Needed My Eyes This week I aimed Claude at migrating the UI frameworks of two production apps.

2026-06-02 Stop Correcting Your AI.

2026-05-07 Your Hiring Process Is a Mirror I was approached for a senior Rails role through a staffing agency.

2026-04-07 The Gravity Between You and the 100X Dark Factory I heard Nathan B Jones talking about the concept of a living resume and how he thought the current hiring model was toast.

2026-02-24 How I Came to Understand the 100x Claim First people bragged about 3-5x productivity gains from AI, then 10x, and now 100x.

2025-12-24 Composable Rules: How Small Teams Match Big Company Output Without the Bloat Small teams and solo developers compete with funded companies every day.

2025-10-23 Building a Production App with AI: The Boswell Story You see a lot of “AI-First” success stories floating around.

2025-09-25 My AI Organization Ships Like We’re Funded, But It’s Just Me (Part 1) Part 1: The Knowledge Infrastructure I ship at the velocity of a funded startup, but it’s just me.

2025-09-23 How I Went From Dev Team to Engineering VP with Claude Code I had a bug that only appeared during parallel processing.

2025-09-21 How One Person Becomes a Dev Team with Claude Code I wanted to augment my productivity.

2025-08-24 How We Automated GitHub Issues with Free AI Building on the foundation: This artist is an extention to teaching Claude Code to be consistent and turning prompts into reusable commands.

2025-08-04 Turn Your Best AI Prompts into Reusable Commands You’ve documented your patterns with CLAUDE.md files.

2025-07-30 From Chaos to Control: How I Taught Claude Code to be Consistent and Accurate I started using Claude Code for Rails development with the same excitement everyone has when they first discover AI coding assistants.

2025-02-14 Vibe Coding Needs a Reality Check: Why AI-Generated Code Still Requires Engineering Discipline The term “vibe coding” has been making the rounds, painting a picture of a laid-back, intuitive way to write software with AI.

2025-02-13 UI Unblocker: A CustomGPT for Breaking Through UI Design Roadblocks Sometimes, a UI just doesn’t feel right.

2025-02-09 🤖 Refactoring GraphQL with AI Coding Assistants: A Real-World Use Case AI coding assistants are everywhere, but much of the content focuses on simplistic, contrived demos.

2025-01-09 Getting AI Coding Assistants From OK To Great ⚙ I’ve been experimenting with AI coding tools to see if I could improve their effectiveness.

2023-09-30 Process Spawning with Ruby ⚙ In 2015, I needed a way to record audio streams on a scheduled basis.

2023-08-28 Inter-Process Communication With Ruby 🔄 In 2015, I needed a way to record audio streams on a scheduled basis.

2023-08-24 Building a Hot Tub from Scratch 🛀 I went to Iceland a while back, which was fantastic.

2023-08-21 Internationalization with Ruby on Rails with I18n Internationalization is the process of designing and developing web applications that can support multiple languages and locales.