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Engineering high-stakes digital ecosystems where operational rigor meets narrative soul. Adam McClarin specializes in Sovereign Architecture—bridging the gap between enterprise-level security and SMB agility. From Full-Stack React/Node.js builds to private, secure LLM deployments, I build the "Business Brains" that allow mid-market firms to compete at a global scale. Based in Friendswood, TX.

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1d ago

How do you handle AI tools that make a judgment call vs. ones that just generate text?

Generation tools are low-stakes when they're wrong draft an email, get a bad draft, edit it. Judgment tools are different: grading, flagging, scoring. If the output looks confident and it's actually a guess, someone might act on it without knowing that.

Working on letsflw's exam-checker made this concrete objective questions are easy (exact match, no ambiguity), but for open-ended answers we made a call to surface the AI's mark as a suggestion to review, not a final score, because presenting it as settled felt dishonest.

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1d ago

Getting Claude to review my code before opening a PR. Does it actually cut down on review comments?

Before opening a PR, I started pasting my code into Claude for a quick review first, just to catch anything obvious before it goes to the lead.

A few times it caught things clearly worth fixing: a missed null case, a variable name that didn't match the rest of the file's convention, a catch block that swallowed the error without logging it. Stuff that, if the lead caught it instead, would've meant another round of comment - fix - push.

But there were also times it gave generic "best practice" suggestions that didn't fit our team's actual conventions, so I had to filter through what to actually apply versus ignore.

Not always a time-saver either, for small PRs, the lead's review still came back basically unchanged after I'd already run it through Claude, so that step felt redundant. The benefit was clearer on PRs with more complex logic.

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1d ago

What are the immediate AI Agents/Tools that you would want that will help you?

In this time when we use LLM's for basically anything, what AI agents/tools would you want that you would actually pay for?
What are you spending a lot of money on and would probably save a lot of you time if you got the Agent out of box, or if configuration was much easier?