Sam Brooks

"Every RFC starts with a Perplexity sweep — I want to know what others have built before I draft."

"Claude writes the first draft of the design doc. I rewrite it. Then it rewrites my rewrite. Three rounds usually."

"Cursor for the hot loop. Claude Code when I need to touch every package. Copilot stays on for autocomplete only — it gets noisy otherwise."

"Every diff gets a PR, even solo work. The trail is the documentation."

"Preview URL per branch. Nothing merges without a link someone clicked."

"Plausible for the honest number. No cookie banner, no vanity dashboards."

"Linear holds the backlog. The org lives here since the Jira exodus."

"Decisions that survive the sprint go to Notion. Everything else is allowed to die in Slack."

"A two-minute Descript walkthrough beats a meeting. Async by default."

"Granola takes the retro notes so I can actually be in the retro."