James Mensch
Austin
I build developer tools and the kind of infrastructure most people don't notice when it's working. Most of my writing is about Claude Code, agent workflows, and a homelab running on a small NUC. I'm based in Austin with three dogs.
Writing
- 05 / 2026 Memory doesn't survive momentum
Most posts about Claude Code stop at CLAUDE.md, the easy part. The harder problem is enforcement: rules in memory don't enforce anything once Claude has momentum on a task.