We’re all figuring out how AI fits into the way we build.
It’s a force multiplier unlike anything we’ve built with before.
I’m Steven Sacks, a fullstack engineer based in Tokyo. Decades of building for the web have sharpened my read on what’s real and what’s noise.
GAIA, my open-source Claude Code workflow built on React, is where I’m working it out.
Recent articles
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Zero warnings is the quality bar I set before letting AI write any code
My leverage with Claude didn't come from better prompts. It came from a lint config I've been refining for years.
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How I keep Claude from writing React anti-patterns
Claude defaulted to two anti-patterns I'd have corrected in review. The deeper cost isn't the bug, it's what bad patterns become.
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What three AI design tools taught me about Claude skills
I redesigned my landing page three times with three AI design tools, all on the same model. What actually drove the quality was not what I expected.