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The capstone of the full-stack engineering series: how APIs, databases, caching, and deployment patterns shape the back-end choices that sit underneath the front-end strategies covered in Part 2.

Skills, hooks, MCP, plan mode, subagents, slash commands - the surface area of an agentic coding tool is meaningful, but it lands as noise unless you see it in motion. Part 2 walks three real-shaped workflows and surfaces the primitives where they actually matter, then summarises them at the end. Not a feature tour.

Sometime in the last twelve months the question changed from "how do you use AI in your workflow?" to "when do you intervene?" - and the second question is a different category of question. Part 1 of a five-part series on the agentic-coding state of play, using Claude Code as the lens to observe a broader shift in the craft.

Gold is back above $5,000. The crash didn't break the thesis. But the parabola did reveal something important about how fragile the rally had become. Part 3 asks the harder questions: Is this a bubble or a genuine repricing? What would have to be true for gold to go to $6,000? And what does any of this actually mean for the world?

On January 29–31, 2026, gold lost 21% and silver lost 40% in the most violent precious metals selloff since 1980. This is a forensic account of what happened, why the Warsh nomination was the match rather than the fuel, and what the wreckage reveals about how modern commodity markets actually work.