Comments Were Piling Up

When someone leaves a comment on my café’s guestbook, a human doesn’t review it first — a local LLM does. It decides whether the comment is abusive, an ad, or just a nice review, and handles it automatically.

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Then one day, while going through the logs, I noticed something odd.

[MOD] Processing 5 pending entries...
[MOD] Processing 5 pending entries...
[MOD] Processing 5 pending entries...

The same log line kept repeating. The next poll was kicking off before the previous batch had finished processing.

Fixing a Homepage After 3 Years

My wife currently runs an unmanned cafe. And three years ago, I built the cafe’s homepage on WordPress.

Since then, I’d barely touched it. Menus changed, images changed, but the homepage just sat there. Maintaining it was too much of a hassle. One day I opened it up and it was completely out of sync with reality — discontinued items were still listed, and current items were missing.

The problem you run into with Claude Code

These days, more and more developers are using Claude Code.

Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding tool — you describe what you want in the terminal, and it writes the actual code for you. It’s genuinely powerful.

But if you’ve used it for a while, you’ve probably run into something like this.

“Build me a sign-up feature.”

That’s all you said, and Claude starts churning out everything from database design to API code. At first it feels like “wow, that’s fast!” — but look closer, and it’s often not what you actually wanted.