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Claude Code Made Me Ridiculously Productive: Skills, Subagents, Hooks, and MCP

I use Claude Code every day, and it’s honestly hard to go back. Not because it writes code for me (lots of tools can do that). It’s because Claude Code makes me feel like I’m running a small engineering team inside my terminal: fast exploration, soli...

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Prototyping Smarter with Aspire, Ollama & GitHub Models

That’s exactly what I set out to do—transforming a single-provider AI demo into a flexible, production-like playground that supports local models with Ollama, and remote models with GitHub Models and Azure AI Foundry deployments. Along the way, I exp...

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Building an MCP for Excel

Introduction These days, everyone seems to be talking about MCPs and agentic workflows in the context of AI-driven software development. Rather than add another technical deep dive to the pile, I’ll skip the detailed explanation of what an MCP is—if ...

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Post 0: Launching My Agentic Coding & AI‑Automation Journey

Hello, and welcome to Code Smarter! I’m Jorge Castillo Pino—a solutions architect and lifelong technologist with more than two decades of hands‑on experience in software design, system modernization, and technical leadership. From containerizing lega...

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