santicartoons
Learnings from building software with AI.
The story of how I built marienbraeu.at. How a family brewery in the Austrian mountains, a table full of kindness, and an unexpected website helped me heal from burnout and recover as a software engineer.
read post- Sprint : I had to reduce Silver Dragon (PROD) Energy bill
AI Infrastructure engineering is also about the power bill — the self-hosting reality check when an idle server runs hot, and how Claude automated the BIOS fixes.
- Sprint : Where Do I Stand in the Market?
Four months building a base and I never once priced it. So I handed the question to the model that lives inside it, and told it not to be kind.
- Sprint : AI Software Infrastructure - Crew Preparations
A Claude outage stopped my whole development process — so I refactored and upgraded: firstmate's crew now does asynchronous development on silverdragon, six-plus hours at a stretch, my sleep routine included.
- Sprint : Why I became an AI Infrastructure Engineer
Twenty years inside companies feeling like part of a hurricane — until I understood what a hurricane really is: one person running incredibly fast around a base. Now the base is mine.
- Sprint : I do Software Development on Prod
Twenty years ago this title could have ended a career. In the AI era, maxed-out hardware and two dragons working in parallel make it the smart move.
