Systems and Strides

I document and share my learnings here. Some of them may be useful to you!

Blog Posts

The 5 Stages of Claude Code Mastery

The 5 Stages of Claude Code Mastery

A field guide to the Dunning-Kruger curve of AI-assisted programming, from denial to mass enlightenment.

Rest Days

Rest Days

I ran a 10k two minutes faster on a harder course with less training. The secret wasn't more miles. It was forced rest.

7 Agents, 38 Tasks, $0: Running Claude Code Agent Teams on Local GPUs

7 Agents, 38 Tasks, $0: Running Claude Code Agent Teams on Local GPUs

How I ran a 7-agent Claude Code team for 3 hours to improve this blog, paid nothing, and why local models are good enough when you decompose the work.

Claude Lens - A Control Tower for Claude Code's Multi-Agent System

Claude Lens - A Control Tower for Claude Code's Multi-Agent System

A desktop app that turns ~/.claude/ into a real-time observability dashboard. Teams, costs, conversations, analytics, and more in one window, zero JSON spelunking.

Leo: My Zero-Cost, Privacy-First AI Assistant on WhatsApp

Leo: My Zero-Cost, Privacy-First AI Assistant on WhatsApp

A fully local AI assistant inside WhatsApp, handling queries, calendar, email, and fitness tracking with zero API costs and complete data privacy.

Optional Hard Things

Optional Hard Things

Modern life decoupled reward from effort. Voluntary hardship rewires the equation and builds lasting resilience.

From Toy Debates to Autonomous Engineering Teams with CrewAI

From Toy Debates to Autonomous Engineering Teams with CrewAI

Scaling CrewAI from a simple debate exercise to a fully autonomous software engineering crew, with agents that research, code, and review, all running on local GPUs.

Building a Local AI Rig in 2025

Building a Local AI Rig in 2025

A dual-GPU workstation built for local LLM inference. 32GB of VRAM, no API leash, and the joy of building a PC.

First Post

First Post

Why I started writing, and what to expect from a blog at the intersection of AI engineering and endurance.