Dispatches from the messy middle of solo software development—bridging AI prototypes, production code, and the psychology of shipping alone.
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Building Phil, part 1: Stop the waste
A one-line change took my coding agent 50 minutes and 438 model calls. The model wasn't the problem. Here's what the run logs showed, what I changed, and the before-and-after numbers.