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Boris Tane
Personal blog · boristane.com/blogprogrammingaistartups
Boris Tane's personal blog at boristane.com covers programming, ai and startups. Since 2025, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Boris Tane's posts on using Claude Code, especially his plan-before-execution workflow, which commenters say they adopted. Also cited are his posts on observability and the software development lifecycle.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Boris Tane, and I build software
Most-linked posts?
- How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-02-13
- What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects?4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-11-05
- The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-21
- Observability wide events 101 (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-22
- On-Call Is Now Theatre2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-22
- Lessons from starting, building, and exiting a devtools startup (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
What Hacker News says?
The author wrote about the topic before: https://boristane.com/blog/observability-wide-events-101/ He used to work for https://baselime.io/ which was aquired by Cloudflare.
Comment linking /blog/observability-wide-events-101/
on “Logging sucks”Submitted How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution as a story · 8 points
HN discussionReally? Cloudflare isn't solely a CDN anymore. CDN and DDOS-protection were the most logical "first" products to build based on their SDN ( Software Defined Networking). A cloud is the next thing and there's a lot of money involved with the cloud. I see them as the only real competitor/challenger to Azure, AWS, GCE, ... because they aren't bound to regions ( less DevOps) For example, what you might not know about Du…
Comment linking /blog/what-are-cloudflare-durable-objects/
on “Replicate is joining Cloudflare”Submitted What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects? as a story · 6 points
HN discussion- you most certainly also wanna read this one https://boristane.com/blog/the-software-development-lifecycl...
Comment linking /blog/the-software-development-lifecycle-is-dead/
on “Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)”Submitted The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think it was edited with an LLM - the voice flits from human to bot but various tells are present. The heterogeneity of sentence structure is the clearest signal. Here’s an older article from the author from 2024: https://boristane.com/blog/learnings-from-starting-building-...
Comment linking /blog/learnings-from-starting-building-and-exiting-a-devtools-startup/
on “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution”Submitted What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe beginnings of that sustainable approach is already out there: https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
Comment linking /blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
on “The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers”Submitted One Database per User with Cloudflare Durable Objects and Drizzle ORM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'd been using this workflow for a while, but this post I found on HN a couple of weeks ago really solidified it: https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/ > The workflow I’m going to describe has one core principle: never let Claude write code until you’ve reviewed and approved a written plan. This separation of planning and execution is the single most important thing I do. It prevents wasted effort, keeps…
Comment linking /blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
on “Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer”Submitted What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use the same approach, derived off of https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/ .
Comment linking /blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
on “Intent-Based Commits”Submitted On-Call Is Now Theatre as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy current thinking is based on boris tanes[1] formalised method of coding with Claude code. I commit the research and plan.md files as they are when I finally tell Claude to implement changes in code. This becomes a living lexicon of the architecture and every feature added. A very slight variation I do from Boris's method is that I prefix all my research and plan .md filenames with the name of the feature. I can v…
Comment linking /blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
on “If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?”Submitted On-Call Is Now Theatre as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> consensus best practice I'm not sure I agree with this. I don't think there needs to be a whole spec & documentation process before plan mode. There is alternative thought leadership that the waterfall approach for building out projects is not the right Agentic pattern[1]. Planning itself can be such an intensive process where you're designing and figuring out the specs on the fly in a focused manner for the thing…
Comment linking /blog/the-software-development-lifecycle-is-dead/
on “Agentic Engineering Patterns”Submitted Slop Creep: The Great Enshittification of Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Use Claude Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability with ClickHouse (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SDLC Is Dead as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observability wide events 101 (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from starting, building, and exiting a devtools startup (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contextual RAG on Cloudflare Workers as a story · 1 points
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