https://floggingclaude.com What happens when a platform engineer beats on an AI assistant until it builds things that actually work. en-us Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://floggingclaude.com/i-built-the-uploader-twice-before-i-noticed-it-was-the-same-problem.html https://floggingclaude.com/i-built-the-uploader-twice-before-i-noticed-it-was-the-same-problem.html Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Scoping a self-maintaining wiki pitch, I went digging through my own repos for prior art and found I'd already built both missing pieces - a presigned S3 upload flow and a Claude-backed chat widget - in two projects that never once talked to each other. https://floggingclaude.com/i-have-a-content-calendar-a-publishing-pipeline-and-zero-readers.html https://floggingclaude.com/i-have-a-content-calendar-a-publishing-pipeline-and-zero-readers.html Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I built a full publishing pipeline - validation gates, S3, CloudFront, RSS, a five-tweet X bot, Medium crossposts, a Notion content calendar - for an audience that fits in a Honda Civic. The pipeline was never really about readers. https://floggingclaude.com/anthropics-postmortem-was-better-than-most-companies-product-launches.html https://floggingclaude.com/anthropics-postmortem-was-better-than-most-companies-product-launches.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 An SRE reads Anthropic's April 23rd postmortem on the Claude Code regression and discovers that a vendor explaining itself honestly, in plain language, is somehow the most impressive thing they shipped that week. https://floggingclaude.com/the-blog-that-writes-the-blog-that-writes-the-blog.html https://floggingclaude.com/the-blog-that-writes-the-blog-that-writes-the-blog.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I built an automated publishing pipeline that deploys my blog posts about building automated publishing pipelines. The automation works. The scary part is how quietly it fails. https://floggingclaude.com/i-spent-220000-tokens-teaching-claude-to-stop-wasting-tokens.html https://floggingclaude.com/i-spent-220000-tokens-teaching-claude-to-stop-wasting-tokens.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A self-maintaining wiki made my AI's answers about 120x cheaper than dumping everything into context, and about 5x cheaper than RAG. The token math, with charts, and the build-cost catch. https://floggingclaude.com/the-feds-ran-a-chaos-engineering-experiment-on-my-stack-i-didnt-consent.html https://floggingclaude.com/the-feds-ran-a-chaos-engineering-experiment-on-my-stack-i-didnt-consent.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 My pipeline fell over and the root cause wasn't my trailing slash - it was a federal export-control order that pulled two models with no notice. A live dispatch on unplanned chaos engineering and why model availability is an SLA you don't own. https://floggingclaude.com/i-optimized-my-context-window-and-saved-60-on-orientation-tokens.html https://floggingclaude.com/i-optimized-my-context-window-and-saved-60-on-orientation-tokens.html Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I cut my Claude memory file from eleven kilobytes to seven hundred tokens by treating context like a database instead of a packing list. 76% reduction in per-session overhead, snappier responses, smaller bills. https://floggingclaude.com/auto-memory-teaching-claude-to-remember-you-so-it-can-disappoint-you-consistently.html https://floggingclaude.com/auto-memory-teaching-claude-to-remember-you-so-it-can-disappoint-you-consistently.html Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Claude's auto-memory remembers I prefer python3. It does not remember the shape of my nav HTML, despite a dozen identical corrections. A look at what selective machine memory keeps, what it loses, and why good memory is a curation problem, not a storage one. https://floggingclaude.com/i-have-151-cowork-sessions-ive-lost-control.html https://floggingclaude.com/i-have-151-cowork-sessions-ive-lost-control.html Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I opened Cowork this morning and saw 151 sessions. Some are scheduled tasks, some are me from 2 AM last Tuesday on a problem I no longer remember. Session management is the new tab management — and the observability layer hasn't been built yet. https://floggingclaude.com/ses-temporaryfailure-the-terraform-resource-that-makes-you-wait-and-pray.html https://floggingclaude.com/ses-temporaryfailure-the-terraform-resource-that-makes-you-wait-and-pray.html Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 My SES domain verification kept flipping pending-then-verified across two regions because two Terraform modules were each silently overwriting the same DNS TXT record. The two-abstractions-one-resource anti-pattern, and why waiting only works when the system is converging. https://floggingclaude.com/claude-35-sonnet-got-end-of-lifed-on-bedrock-while-i-was-deploying.html https://floggingclaude.com/claude-35-sonnet-got-end-of-lifed-on-bedrock-while-i-was-deploying.html Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A Bedrock model deprecation cascaded through inference profiles, IAM, request shapes, and prompt tuning. Four infrastructure changes from one polite email. AI models are vendor-controlled dependencies with sunset clocks — time to treat them that way. https://floggingclaude.com/css-selectors-cant-start-with-a-number-and-claude-wont-remember-that.html https://floggingclaude.com/css-selectors-cant-start-with-a-number-and-claude-wont-remember-that.html Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I prefixed my widget CSS with 3mn- and lost forty minutes wondering why nothing styled. CSS class names cannot start with a digit. Claude wrote every invalid selector right alongside me. A field note on AI's shared blind spots. https://floggingclaude.com/opus-47-dropped-on-a-wednesday-and-gpt-55-dropped-the-following-thursday.html https://floggingclaude.com/opus-47-dropped-on-a-wednesday-and-gpt-55-dropped-the-following-thursday.html Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A new flagship model dropped on a Wednesday. Another one dropped the next Thursday. The API contract held. The behavior didn't. Welcome to the eight-week half-life of every prompt you ship. https://floggingclaude.com/is-claude-code-free-20-100-anthropic-doesnt-know-either.html https://floggingclaude.com/is-claude-code-free-20-100-anthropic-doesnt-know-either.html Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A guy at a meetup asked what Claude Code costs. The honest answer involves an A/B test, a Simon Willison shrug, and seven distinct ways to pay for the same product. Pricing was supposed to be the easy part. https://floggingclaude.com/claude-can-draft-your-email-but-cant-hit-send.html https://floggingclaude.com/claude-can-draft-your-email-but-cant-hit-send.html Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Gmail MCP has create_draft but no send. Across the MCP ecosystem the AI handles every step of a task except the one where consequences happen. Call it permission slip architecture. https://floggingclaude.com/claudes-brand-consistency-is-worse-than-a-freelancer-on-fiverr.html https://floggingclaude.com/claudes-brand-consistency-is-worse-than-a-freelancer-on-fiverr.html Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three independent safety nets — a golden template, a validator script, and a pre-deploy gate — because Claude could not stop "improving" the nav HTML. Treat the model like a process that drifts, then build the rails on the rails. https://floggingclaude.com/anthropic-quietly-nerfed-claude-code-and-hoped-nobody-would-notice.html https://floggingclaude.com/anthropic-quietly-nerfed-claude-code-and-hoped-nobody-would-notice.html Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three silent regressions to Claude Code in five weeks. The vendor turned a knob; the only customer-facing signal was "it kinda sucks now." An SRE's case for monitoring your AI like every other production dependency. https://floggingclaude.com/my-ai-blog-writes-itself-poorly.html https://floggingclaude.com/my-ai-blog-writes-itself-poorly.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I automated my blog publishing pipeline. By day four, the logo was wrong, the fonts had vanished, and Claude was rewriting the nav at 7am while I slept. Three validation layers later, here's what AI-assisted publishing actually requires. https://floggingclaude.com/open-the-span-bay-doors-claude.html https://floggingclaude.com/open-the-span-bay-doors-claude.html Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A backend infrastructure engineer tries front-end development with Claude's help and discovers the pain of CSS, accessibility compliance, and endless UI troubleshooting. https://floggingclaude.com/you-dont-know-me-claude.html https://floggingclaude.com/you-dont-know-me-claude.html Sat, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Claude's memory feature builds a profile of you between sessions. But does asking about RVs once make you an RV guy? AI memory, sycophancy, and the gap between context and understanding. https://floggingclaude.com/token-budgets-plan-usage-limits-and-secret-workarounds.html https://floggingclaude.com/token-budgets-plan-usage-limits-and-secret-workarounds.html Fri, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What happens when you hit the usage limit on Claude Pro Max, try OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi, and discover that Dispatch lets you flog from your phone.