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Every AI session starts from zero. Mine doesn't.

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:00:00 -0500

The first thing I do in every Claude Code session is the same thing I’d do if I woke up with amnesia in my own office. Where am I? What branch? What did I ship yesterday? What tickets moved overnight? Did someone create a new workflow I haven’t seen? Is there a live patch on the cluster that never made it into terraform?

The model doesn’t know any of this. Every session starts from zero. The context window is empty. The handoff docs exist but nobody reads them unless you make it a rule. The Jira board changed while you were asleep. The teammate who was blocked yesterday merged a PR at 3am and now the branch you were working on has conflicts.

Do not fake smallness

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0500

I found an old gist from my BAM consulting days. It shows csvq — a one-line alias that turns any CSV stream into a queryable in-memory SQLite database with JSON output:

alias csvq="sqlite3 :memory: -cmd '.mode csv' -cmd '.import /dev/stdin s3' '.mode json'"

Pipe a CSV into it, write SQL, get JSON. I wrote it for a colleague I was initiating into my ways. The gist is polite. It shows the output being piped into jq '.[]', which is perfectly respectable Unix.

Newspapers aren't dead. You read one every morning.

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:00:00 -0500

Every morning I open Slack, scan three channels, check Jira for overnight transitions, read Google Meet transcripts from the India-side scrum, glance at AWS support cases, and pull up the git log to see what merged while I slept. By the time standup starts I’ve assembled a mental model of where everything is. I do this every day. I’ve never called it what it is.

I’m reading the morning paper.