A practical model-routing strategy for speed, judgment, context, and engineering risk.
Choosing Claude Sonnet 5 or Opus 4.8 for Coding Agent Work
Razvan Mares··8 min read
A coding agent is not a faster autocomplete box. It is a temporary engineer operating inside a real system: reading a repository, forming a plan, changing files, running commands, interpreting failure...
ci-cdTypeScriptgit+1
A practical system for turning Claude from a helpful assistant into a dependable engineering collaborator.
Make Claude More Reliable with Context, Constraints, and Feedback Loops
Razvan Mares··8 min read
Claude does not become more useful because a prompt gets longer. It becomes more useful when the work is framed as an engineering system: clear inputs, explicit constraints, observable outputs, and a ...
TypeScriptgitAI/ML+1
A practical approach to platform engineering when your engineering team is one person.
The Solo Developer’s Internal Platform: Build Leverage, Not Ceremony
Razvan Mares··9 min read
Platform engineering is often described as an organizational response to scale: too many teams, too many services, too many deployment paths, and too much operational friction. That framing makes it s...
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How to coordinate multiple coding agents without turning your repository into a collision zone.
Parallel AI Coding Workflows: From Prompt Swarms to Reliable Merges
Razvan Mares··8 min read
A single coding agent can feel like a very fast pair programmer. A group of agents can feel like a small engineering organization that never sleeps—until they edit the same file, infer different requi...
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A practical guide to exposing .NET capabilities safely through the Model Context Protocol.
Build a Production-Ready MCP Server in C#: Tools, Trust, and Transport
Razvan Mares··9 min read
Large language models are capable of reasoning over instructions, but they cannot safely operate your systems just because they can describe them. They need a controlled interface: a contract that def...
.NETcsharpAI/ML+2
How Proxmox VMs, k3s, Traefik, storage, and disciplined operations form my home platform.
Inside My k3s-on-Proxmox Homelab: A Small Platform With Real Constraints
Razvan Mares··8 min read
A homelab becomes substantially more useful when it stops being a collection of experiments and starts behaving like a platform.
That is the goal of my k3s-on-Proxmox stack. It is not intended to imi...