https://douglasbradley.dev/ Notes on building AI into software that handles money. https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/orchestrate-first.html https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/orchestrate-first.html Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 When agents go wrong, they go wrong confidently. https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/skills-versus-hooks.html https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/skills-versus-hooks.html Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Claude broke my local build twice, the same way. The second time, I learned the difference between a skill and a hook. https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/rules-that-load-by-path.html https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/rules-that-load-by-path.html Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 I've found that a long instruction file fails quietly. The rule that matters is in there somewhere, next to a dozen that don't apply, and it gets no more attention than any of them. https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/settings-what-claude-is-allowed-to-do.html https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/settings-what-claude-is-allowed-to-do.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 When I finally read my Claude Code permissions file, it held about 120 entries. Some pointed at folders I'd moved weeks earlier. I hadn't decided any of them. Each one was a click on "yes, and don't ask again." https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/what-you-miss-when-you-skip-the-setup.html https://douglasbradley.dev/posts/what-you-miss-when-you-skip-the-setup.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 I recently walked the developers at work through my Claude Code setup. They all use Claude every day. Most of what I showed them was new. It works so well out of the box that none of them had a reason to dig deeper.