Stories by rmoff

Evaluating Claude's dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch

Claude Code isn't going to replace data engineers (yet)

AI will fuck you up if you're not on board

Wes McKinney – The Mythical Agent-Month

The Disintermediation of Databases

Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet

I got Claude to teach me dbt

Ten years late to the dbt party (DuckDB edition)

Reflections of a Developer on LLMs in January 2026

Cosplaying as a webdev with Claude Code in January 2026

Interacting with Developers on Reddit

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

Friction Logs (2018)

A Love Letter to Raycast

Spotting Astroturfing on Reddit

AI Smells on Medium

Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution

I've been thinking about Agents and MCP all wrong

How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?

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