Writing
I write about building software with AI and about personal finance.
· 3 min
I Built an MCP Server for My Site
A public, read-only MCP server at api.mays.co/mcp lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or VS Code run my retirement simulator, search Buffett's letters, and read my posts.
· 11 min
Slow Agents and Spare Tokens: Building an Investing Agent That Optimizes for Being Right
My stock-research agent evaluates one company at a time, fans out a dozen subagents to verify every claim, and runs only when I have spare tokens to burn. Slow by every metric that matters for an agent — which is exactly why I trust it. How it is built, and the first stock it picked.
· 12 min
Optimizing Claude Code: Skills, Plugins, and the Art of Teaching Your AI to Code Like You
Customize Claude Code with skills, plugins, commands, and configuration files that transform a capable coding assistant into one that matches your exact workflow.
· 7 min
Setting Up An API Subdomain - Solving CORS Issues and Production AI Reliability
How I fixed intermittent CORS failures and timeout issues in my AI tools by setting up a custom API subdomain and migrating from free to paid AI providers.
· 5 min
Building Ask Warren: A Production RAG System with 47 Years of Investment Wisdom
How I built a retrieval-augmented generation system that lets you chat with Warren Buffett's shareholder letters - to understand RAG trade-offs in production.
· 3 min
Building an AI Resume-to-Startup Idea Generator with Claude Code
How I built a complete AI-powered web application using agentic coding - from concept to production in hours, not days.