Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Jul 18Trust, But Verify: A Five-Stage Pattern for Working With Claude Code to Build Basic Modern Web…TL;DR: Claude’s default failure mode isn’t refusal, it’s confident, plausible-sounding claims that time-pressured developers don’t always…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Jul 17AI Treats Your Documentation as Data. You Should Too.TL;DR: Enterprise AI runs on enterprise data, and that includes the unstructured data in the form of documentation that is poorly curated…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Jun 21Meet Deadlines and Manage Technical Debt with AI-Assisted Architecture — What IT Istl;dr: New platform. Deadline. The instinct is to move fast and clean it up later. That’s where technical debt is born. A well-constructed…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Jun 4The Gold Rush Was Never Just About GoldTL;DR: Most people who chased the Gold Rush didn’t know what they were getting into. They saw headlines about fortunes and stories about…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·May 1650 First PromptsTL;DR: LLMs do not remember anything between calls. Every “conversation” you’ve ever had with one was reconstructed from scratch by…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·May 12Markup is the New MarkdownTL;DR: “HTML is the new Markdown” is an attention-grabbing headline (for some of us), but not something to adopt at face-value, or without…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·May 2Attitudes About AI Adoption and AccelerationMuch of the misplaced fear and distrust surrounding AI adoption traces back to a single omission in how people are often introduced to its…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Apr 21Efficient Claude Usage with Microsoft Word DocumentsThe recent increase in usage limits has done what scarcity always does: it has made people pay attention to process. Suddenly, everyone…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Apr 21Perspectives in Spec Driven DevelopmentThere’s this great weekly online morning meetup I join when I can called “The Secrets of Product Management”, led by Nils Davis. Recently…
Scott S Nelson, Solutionist·Apr 15Windows 11 Policy GremlinsRemember the movie Gremlins? A friendly creature that if you fed it after midnight, all heck would break loose and humans would be left to…
