Insights & Ideas
Thoughts on AI, developer tools, and technology leadership.
With Claude Code, I can dream up tools that closely match my workflow and environment, and conjure them into existence. So far, Claude Code and friends are the closest thing to a “thought compiler” th...
Context, memory, and iterative development are critical for scaling up development with AI coding agents. Connecting them to issue trackers (JIRA, Github Issues), MCP servers like Context7 (for API/SD...
I recently hit a couple security/safety issues with Claude Code. Click on my article for a couple examples and mitigation techniques. Please remember there is no guarantee that instructions in your...
In 2025, I've spent more time than ever conversing with AI coding agents, particularly Claude Code. These conversations are an intimate look into how we think and solve problems. Every chat with the a...
I find the comments posted under any given Polymarket event quite interesting. In fact, so much so, that I use Claude Code + Playwright MCP to process the comments, asking it to: Summarize the key poi...
With Claude Code, I can dream up tools that closely match my workflow and environment, and conjure them into existence. So far, Claude Code and friends are the closest thing to a “thought compiler” th...
Context, memory, and iterative development are critical for scaling up development with AI coding agents. Connecting them to issue trackers (JIRA, Github Issues), MCP servers like Context7 (for API/SD...
I recently hit a couple security/safety issues with Claude Code. Click on my article for a couple examples and mitigation techniques. Please remember there is no guarantee that instructions in your...
In 2025, I've spent more time than ever conversing with AI coding agents, particularly Claude Code. These conversations are an intimate look into how we think and solve problems. Every chat with the a...
I find the comments posted under any given Polymarket event quite interesting. In fact, so much so, that I use Claude Code + Playwright MCP to process the comments, asking it to: Summarize the key poi...
Google - if you're listening, for NotebookLM, I'd love to see a feature where you can point it to a Gemini Canvas chat to produce content/slide decks from the conversation and vibe-coded app. Build pr...
AI can turn your computer into a 3D printer for software. It's a revolutionary shift in how we interface with technology, and I had the opportunity to engage with others in the Philly community by pre...
Very interesting acquisition by Anthropic.
Over the holidays, I discovered a great shopping companion when I'm out on my own - ChatGPT voice mode and a pair of earbuds (AirPods in my case). I can load a shopping list beforehand and then talk t...
Claude Code is the textbook definition of product-led growth (PLG).
I’ve been attending and participating in more events lately, and it’s been a blast. There’s simply no substitute for live, in-person conversations. It’s refreshing to talk to a real human whose reacti...
Claude is really good at putting together Reveal.js presentations that look nice. Far better than I could by myself. I can focus on the structure and content, and guide it to generate the slides. Ta...
I have a meeting in Center City tonight, and needed to check SEPTA’s updated late-night schedules. ChatGPT’s built-in web search wasn’t cutting it and I didn't feel like futzing with it more, so I fir...
Completely agree with this post from Dave Clark at Auger. “Build forward” nails where product development is headed. With coding agents in the mix, it’s all one continuous loop now. Inputs: text, exi...
If your favorite application provides a data export, you can use AI coding agents to accelerate building tools or applications on top of that exported data, potentially getting access to features that...
In the first episode of 15 Minutes With, Tracey Welson-Rossman and Sujan Kapadia discuss ideas to help remote teams work more effectively, while focusing on the human side of things.
2025 was a year of acceleration—not just in tools, but in how organizations think about building, shipping, and sustaining software. At Chariot Solutions, our blog reflected the questions we were hearing most often from clients, partners, and the broader technology community: How do we move from experimenting with AI to using it responsibly on a … Read More
What Does It Mean to Be a Developer in the Age of AI Agents? October 15, 2025, Philadelphia, PA At a recent Chariot Solutions panel discussion hosted at Certara (thanks Martin Snyder!), technology leaders gathered to explore one of the most pressing questions facing the software industry today: how is the developer’s role evolving as … Read More
Tool Limitations In Part 1, we went over converting natural language requests into commands, using LLMs. That’s a nice improvement from having to enter slash commands, but the current tool still has two major limitations: No flexible editing: There’s no way to update or delete an existing item using natural language. When referring to a … Read More
What We’re Building When I recently paired with Claude Code to build a text-based to-do app (code available on Github, disclaimer: mostly generated by Claude), I wanted to add a simple natural language interface. In this post, we’ll build that feature using TypeScript, Node, and an OpenAI model, without using any special frameworks that might … Read More
My motivation for creating tools often stems from a desire to get familiar with new technologies. This project was no different; I wanted to deepen my understanding of Generative AI. However, this wasn’t the primary reason for its creation. The real driving force was a persistent gap in my workflow that I couldn’t ignore any … Read More
My motivation for creating tools often stems from a desire to get familiar with new technologies. This project was no different; I wanted to deepen my understanding of Generative AI. However, this wasn’t the primary reason for its creation. The real driving force was a persistent gap in my workflow that I couldn’t ignore any … Read More
Ignoring tech debt because it’s expensive doesn’t make the problem go away — it only kicks the can down the road. Businesses should approach technical debt as a routine, scheduled part of their development process.