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The First Wall You Hit When Maintaining Legacy Code with AI

You want to use AI coding to streamline legacy code maintenance. You point the AI agent at the codebase, and immediately hit a wall. "Why is it implemented this…

How to Install sqlew: Give Your AI Coding Agent Persistent Memory in One Command

sqlew is an open-source tool that manages per-project "memory" for the AI-native era. It stores design decisions and constraints in a structured SQL d…

The One Habit That Improves Plan Mode Accuracy — "Refine Until You're Convinced"

More developers are using Claude Code's Plan Mode as part of their daily workflow. The "plan first, implement second" approach is becoming an establis…

How sqlew Redefines ADR — AI-Native Design Memory

In the previous article, we explored how ADRs fell out of use because humans couldn't maintain them — and how AI coding now faces the same core problem ADRs wer…

ADR — The Management Technique That Was Too Ahead of Its Time

Software development history has its share of practices that were "right, but never caught on." ADR (Architecture Decision Record) may well be one of …

How to Make AI Answer "Why Did You Choose This Design?"

With AI coding now mainstream, more developers find themselves squinting at AI-generated pull requests and wondering: "Why on earth did the AI go with this…