Lessons Learned | AI Learning Playground

Balancing Token Savings and Code Quality: A Real Example of Quality Declining from Over-Trimming

Jun 22, 2026

Shiori

A record of how reducing AI input context to lower costs led to a decline in output quality, along with criteria for deciding what can and cannot safely be removed.

How AI Triggered a Production Deployment and Why I Made npm run build Require Approval

Jun 22, 2026

Shiori

A record of how a production deployment command ran while I was asking AI to make a separate change, and the approval-required rule I put in place afterward.

Retreating After Four Git Conflicts on a Feature Branch: The Reality of Git Operations with AI

Jun 22, 2026

Shiori

A record of four consecutive Git conflicts on a feature branch, the attempt to resolve them with AI assistance, the decision to abandon the branch, and the lessons I took from it.