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A conversation at Demo Nights brought me back to an idea: keeping product decisions, their reasoning, implementation and postmortems traceable in the same repository.

A missed metro stop, an impressive five-minute pitch, and conversations with old internet acquaintances and young founders. A Tuesday evening in Bucharest that left me feeling hopeful.

A late night YouTube binge dropped Claude Code function hooks in my lap. They turn the rules you keep repeating to your AI into rules it cannot skip. Here is what that opens up, and the ideas I want you to steal.

Everyone says convert your MCP servers' JSON to TOON to save tokens. I measured it against months of my own Claude Code history before believing it, and the data sent me somewhere better.

Claude Code takes browser screenshots that never land on disk. They live in the session transcript as base64, fully recoverable. Here's the tool that gets them out.

Half a video on the morning commute finally pushed me to act on an old idea: a skill should be able to improve itself. Here is the retro step I added to a transcript-analysis skill for Claude Code, and how it rewrote itself on the first real run.

How to extract knowledge from 7+ months of session history, build tools to analyze it at scale, and close the feedback loop where session corrections automatically improve future workflows.

A rainy Sunday train ride to Ploiești, good food at Teatrul Nației, and a month packed with product, AI, and community events.

The inaugural Claude Community Bucharest event drew 240 attendees for live demos of Claude Code and the Claude API. A signal that Bucharest's tech scene isn't just consuming AI, it's building with it.

Reflections from an Agile Minds Romania session about what happens when AI, Agile, and Change Management actually work together.

Notes from an in-person session at ING Hubs Romania on upskilling the IT industry. Hofstede dimensions, burnout culture, self-leadership, and why patience might be the most underrated skill in tech.

Paula Anastasiade broke down change management strategy and vision in a session that hit close to home. I walked away with more questions than answers, and a proposal for a future meetup involving wine and group therapy.

Watching someone build n8n workflows live with Claude Code and an MCP server, and why the friction reduction matters more than the automation itself.

Radu showed how Cursor turned 10,000 messy contacts into a cold email campaign. Tibi used it as a thinking partner. Both made me reconsider what 'developer tool' even means.

Reflections from an in-person fireside chat at Booking Holdings in Bucharest, where product leaders from fraud prevention, M&A, and consulting explored how AI is reshaping their work.

The first AI x Business session featured Sameday's VP of Technology on real AI implementation. The takeaway that stuck: stop counting logins, start counting changed behaviors.

A Saturday morning trip to Ploiești for the first Product & Design Drinks reminded me why local meetups matter and why the best conversations happen in small groups.

A WhatsApp conversation made me think: in the software development lifecycle, writing code is one small piece of a much bigger puzzle. Market validation, testing, deployment, and operations are what actually define whether software succeeds or fails.

How a casual Slack message turned into a fully interactive SyliusCasts tutorial page with video sync, scroll spy, Mermaid diagrams, and confetti — all built with Claude Code in a single session.

How software teams can leverage git, AI transcription, and collaborative PRs to transform product requirement gathering from document chaos into structured, version-controlled collaboration—making git accessible to non-technical team members.

A meta demonstration of how Claude can autonomously write, format, and publish blog posts through GitHub Issues integration. This post itself was created entirely by AI.

Starting fresh with a new blog built on Astro. Here's why I finally decided to put my thoughts out there and how I built a setup that I'll actually use.