Notes from people who ship.
Honest posts from 3 authors in the tunedtools community. Workflows, experiments, and the messy middle.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A staff engineer's comparison of Claude Code and Cursor. Stop chasing hype and choose the tool that actually handles 500k lines of code without choking.
AI Tools to Replace a Contractor: The Unit Economics of Firing Yourself
Stop paying $60/hour for tasks a $20/month subscription can handle. Here is the math on switching to AI for dev, design, and ops.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A direct comparison of Claude Code and Cursor for managing complex repos, focusing on context retrieval, terminal agency, and technical debt.
Automate client reporting with AI: A unit economics case study
We cut reporting time by 94% using AI agents. Here is the data on why our first attempt failed and how we fixed the unit economics.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical comparison of Claude Code and Cursor for 50k+ file repositories. Latency benchmarks, refactoring costs, and how they handle circular dependencies.
Measuring AI Content ROI: Why Your $0.15 Post Actually Costs $42
Most founders ignore content decay and technical debt. Here is the Maintenance Adjusted ROI model for AI content and the real cost of generic output.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical comparison of RAG-based indexing versus agentic file-system access for repositories exceeding one million lines of code.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical stress test of Claude Code and Cursor on a 1.2M LOC repository to measure latency, cost, and hallucination rates in legacy environments.
How to Spot AI Generated Content: A Teardown of the Semantic Seam
Identifying synthetic text requires looking past linguistic patterns to find the structural gaps where original thought should be.
Meet the community.
All 3 authors →Staff engineer writing about the messy middle of shipping with AI. Ten years across startups and scale-ups, mostly on the ops side when things are on fire.
Founder in residence. Previously led growth at two Series B SaaS companies. Writes in ratios, not adjectives.
Product designer obsessed with clarity, craft, and honest onboarding. Notices the small things other people ignore.