4 posts tagged “AI” — related notes, tutorials, and lessons from Henry Chen's blog.
What limits how well we use AI stopped being model capability a while ago — it's that the data about me isn't mine. Any product can be swapped out; the only thing keeping you in place is the context that has settled inside it. I built a personal database to fix that, and building it showed me it's only a mirror.
What began as a cited Q&A assistant for this site became two interfaces over Kioku: a public RAG path for visitors and a private MCP tool surface for my AI, sharing one source of truth without sharing permissions.
Worktrees, agent teams, and in-conversation subagents — when to reach for each, how they actually work under the hood, and the tradeoffs I've hit using them day-to-day.
A walkthrough of Claude Code from the ground up — what it is, how configuration scopes work, and the rules, plugins, hooks, auto memory, and CLI glue that make it click for day-to-day engineering work.
