Hi, I’m Alex Tong.

I’m a software engineer with more than half a decade of experience, previously at Amazon and The New York Times. I write about building real software with Claude Code and AI: practical field notes from production work, not predictions.

Expect hard-won lessons on using Claude Code well (context, code review, project setup), honest takes on where AI actually helps engineers and where it gets in the way, and the occasional detour into developer health and sustainable work, like Count Tongula’s Eye Break.

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