Alex Tong

Software engineer, previously at Amazon and The New York Times. Writing at alextong.me.

New York, NY Joined on Jun 12, 2026 https://alextong.me

Alex Tong

Sep 19

Your auto-generated CLAUDE.md is worse than no file at all

#ai #claude #programming #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

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Alex Tong

Sep 19

40 Engineers, 40 Definitions of Done.

#ai #management #softwareengineering

3 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 15

AI Has No Taste: Why Everything Built With It Looks the Same

#productivity #career #ai #webdev

2 min read

Alex Tong

Sep 19

Stop Asking Your Engineers to Wear Multiple Hats

#leadership #management #softwareengineering

3 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 14

You're building on rented land: don't tie your work to a single AI model

#productivity #career #ai #webdev

2 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 9

Earn the right to optimize

#programming #softwareengineering #productivity #ai

2 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 8

Teaching CLAUDE.md to 500 engineers at EngX

#ai #claude #softwareengineering #career

1 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 7

Claude's session limits accidentally fixed my burnout

#ai #claude #productivity #career

2 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 2

Claude won't kill junior engineering jobs

#career #ai #beginners #programming

2 min read

Alex Tong

Sep 19

I Hand-Built Liquid Glass to Prove It Was a Waste of Time

10 min read

Alex Tong

Jul 1

When Claude starts hallucinating, kill the session

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

2 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 30

Don't let Claude grade its own homework

#ai #claude #softwareengineering #programming

1 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 25

🗑️ Delete Your Claude Project Files

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

6 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 24

Two Prompts That Turn Notion into Your Claude Project's Brain

#ai #claude #productivity #tutorial

4 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 23

Teaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking

#ai #career #productivity #beginners

1 min read

Alex Tong

Sep 19

I Watched a Loop Automate the Bulk of My Job

#ai #automation #productivity

3 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 18

🔥 Claude Code Is (Seriously) Burning Me Out

#ai #career #productivity #claude

4 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 17

🌻 You're Wasting Your Best Engineering Skill

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

6 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 16

🧛 Stop Reading Every Line of Code!

#ai #claude #softwareengineering #programming

7 min read

Alex Tong

Jun 13

👁️ I Built Y'all an App Because My Eyes Were Dying 👁️

#showdev #opensource #productivity #macos

10 min read