AI in real engineering work
How I use AI as a backend engineer on real systems: debugging, code review, model choice, design, agentic workflows — and the Claude Code tricks I lean on every day.
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Claude Code: one workspace for many repos
Launch Claude in the parent of your repos so cross-service tickets stop being N isolated sessions — and let a workspace-level CLAUDE.md describe how the pieces connect.
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Claude Code: fork a session to try a different approach
Fork a Claude Code session with --fork-session: branch into an independent copy to try a risky change without touching the original thread.
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Claude Code: the ! shortcut for shell commands
Prefix a command with ! and it runs directly in your shell, bypassing the model entirely. Faster, and no tokens spent on a round-trip you don't need.
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Jul 28, 2026
Prompt roles: a job description beats a job title
Claude Code: stop watching the terminal — run long commands in the background
Claude Code: let it grill you on the plan before you write any code
Claude Code: the writer/reviewer pattern — don't let the author review their own diff
Claude Code: a /worktree slash command that bootstraps a Go worktree and opens GoLand
MCP: when it's worth it, when the CLI wins (the GitHub case)
Claude Code: two tasks on the same service, two sessions, zero stash — git worktree
Claude Code: three tasks in flight, zero context lost — name sessions after the ticket
Claude Code: getting notified when a session blocks, using hooks
Claude Code: permission rules — wildcards, allow/deny, priority, and plugins
How a per-team plugin marketplace stopped Claude skill duplication across teams
Claude Code: /goal — set the finish line, not each step
Claude Code: the persistent memory you didn't know you had
Claude Code: keeping the context window healthy
Claude Code: subagents have their own context window
Claude Code: which skill wins when names collide?
Claude Code: scope vs permissions
Claude Code: the ! shortcut for shell commands
Claude Code: one workspace for many repos
Claude Code: fork a session to try a different approach
Claude Code: continue sessions and rewind changes
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