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I built a self-hosted coffee logging platform with Rust, Axum, SQLite and Datastar. The project was my most complex agentic coding effort to date, with Claude Code acting as my long‑lived pair‑programmer for almost all of the implementation.

This post covers the motivation, design decisions, and what I learned about building non-trivial software with AI assistance, as well as some patterns I’ve adopted for agentic coding.

AI-assisted tooling is becoming more and more common in the workflows of engineers at all experience levels. As I see it, our challenge is one of consideration, enablement and constraint.

We must enable those who opt-in to safely and responsibly harness the power of these tools, while respecting those who do not wish to have their platform defined or overwhelmed by this class of software.