AI Guides & Best Practices
Practical guides, best practices, and tips for AI coding tools, development workflows, and cost control.
Is Your Claude Code Session Writing on the Wrong Branch?
Running several Claude Code sessions on one repo? One branch switch and another session's edits land on the wrong branch. Here's how we fixed it, first with a custom script, now with Claude Code's built-in EnterWorktree, and how you can set it up in five minutes.
Who Pays for That Claude Code Session? Managing AI Coding Tool Budgets Across a Team
Your developers are using Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. The bill is climbing. Here's how to set per-user budgets, track who's spending what, and enforce limits — not just hope.
Stop Burning Tokens on Subagents: A Model Routing Fix
If you're hitting your Claude usage limit daily, subagents are probably the culprit. Here's how to audit your setup and route cheap tasks to cheaper models — without losing any capability.
Loop Engineering: The New Way to Work with AI Coding Agents
Learn how loop engineering is transforming AI-assisted development. Instead of prompting AI manually, engineers are building automated systems that prompt AI agents in iterative loops.
External Resources
Claude Code Guide claude-code-guide.org · opens in new tab
An interactive plugin for Claude Code delivering guided onboarding, workflow automation, and gamified progression.
5 Agent Skills I Use Every Day aihero.dev · Matt Pocock · opens in new tab
Five battle-tested agent skills for planning, documentation, task decomposition, TDD, and architecture — from an engineer who has spent nearly a decade building structured AI workflows.