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The Demographic Transition Has Already Happened: An Economic Reality Check

US fertility fell below replacement in 2007. The workers who would sustain our economy were never born. We're not preventing a crisis - we're adapting to one.

By Chris Groves 31 Dec 2025
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Engineering Close-Loop System: From Security Findings to Automated Fixes

Build a complete vulnerability remediation workflow using SSH and structured phases - no enterprise SOAR platform required.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 30 Dec 2025
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Verification-First QA

Most AI QA catches errors after generation. Verification-first aims to ground reviews in external facts - here's how to implement it and its limitations.

By Chris Groves 30 Dec 2025
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Model Context Protocol (MCP): One Year Later - Hidden Costs and Real Benefits

After a year of industry adoption and security disclosures, here's the data-driven analysis of MCP's real costs: up to 236× token inflation, 9.5% accuracy loss, and critical CVEs. Plus: why I chose direct VPS wrappers instead.

By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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Hook-Based Model Routing: Keyword-Triggered Model Recommendations in Claude Code

How a PreToolUse hook recommends AI models based on keyword detection - suggesting Opus for complex problems, Grok for review, Haiku for validation. Soft guidance, not enforcement.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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Orchestrating Parallel Agents: Manifest-Based Coordination for Multi-Task Workflows

How I implemented parallel task orchestration using Claude Code's new async subagents feature for concurrent multi-agent workflows.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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Why 'Adjacent' Matters: How Collaboration Architecture Shapes System Design

Why I chose 'adjacent' over 'augmented' and what it means for human-AI collaboration. The philosophy behind the framework.

By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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How to Measure Token Efficiency Yourself: A Hands-On Guide

Step-by-step guide to measuring token counts with tiktoken. Validate efficiency claims, build your own measurement framework, and test your Code API wrappers.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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The Wrapper Efficiency Pattern: Reducing Token Consumption Through File Storage

Store tool output locally, return summaries, read full data on demand. A pattern applied across 68 VPS security tool wrappers.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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Preventing Tool Sprawl Through Discovery Visibility: A PreToolUse Hook Pattern

A PreToolUse hook that discovers existing framework tools and surfaces them when Claude attempts to create new scripts.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 28 Dec 2025
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Turn Any VPS Into a Remote Pentest Platform with Twingate

How to use Twingate's zero-trust architecture with Docker containers to conduct security assessments against private networks from anywhere - including the gotchas that'll save you hours of debugging.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 24 Dec 2025
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Obsidian as a Claude Code Companion: Viewing AI Output in Style

Turn Obsidian into a viewer for Claude Code output with live markdown preview, graph view, and cross-device sync via GitHub.

By Chris Groves 24 Dec 2025
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Democratizing expertise through deployable modules within Intelligence Adjacent. I'm Chris Groves, sharing lessons learned building AI systems that augment human capability instead of replace it.