What happens when you stop treating AI as a tool and start treating it like a team member you need to mentor? I share how recognising junior developer patterns in Claude changed the way I work with it.

I built two Claude Code skills that take a story from Azure DevOps ticket to merged PR. The operational overhead of solo development just got a lot smaller.

I had hundreds of content files across multiple languages and no way to read them all. So I built three AI-powered quality checks and a feedback loop that cut my review pile from hundreds of files to a handful.

I needed 350 content files for 70 destinations across 5 languages. One person, no budget for writers. Here's how I used a two-pass AI approach to generate structured travel content that didn't read like AI slop.

The use of Next-Intl's experimental useExtracted() feature combined with the Anthropic AI API allows for the automation of a website's internationalization workflow across multiple languages. This approach streamlines translation key generation, utilizes AI for context-aware translations, and integrates into development workflows via pre-push hooks.

Updating my long-neglected company website became an unexpected experiment in letting AI do the heavy lifting. What followed was a fast, affordable rebuild, a clearer sense of direction, and some honest reflections on where AI helps—and where it falls short.

Using available time to plant seeds that generate passive income.