Joe Scharf's Weblog

Witnessing History: The AI Capabilities Explosion

16 Feb 2026 3 min read ai

February 2026 will be remembered as a historic moment in the evolution of AI. A definite inflection point in AI development capabilities and a validation point AI assisted everything. Surprisingly, a small handful of people are realizing this, with many either skeptical or just not paying attention.

gsi: A Go Scaffold App to Reduce AI Agent Guessing

12 Feb 2026 2 min read golang

gsi (Go-Superinit) scaffolds Go projects with my preferred stack. The real payoff is that AI coding assistants see the established patterns and follow them without being told.

wt: A Git Worktree Manager for Parallel AI Development

11 Feb 2026 3 min read ai

I built a tool to manage git worktrees for parallel Claude Code sessions. It worked so well I had to upgrade to the $200/month plan.

Retrieval Augmented Generation from Scratch Tutorial

09 Feb 2026 1 min read

A concise tutorial covering RAG from start to finish. In the end, I found that it's rather straightforward to build a RAG system that can answer questions about your documentation or other artifacts.