Anna Rivera
Staff engineer writing about the messy middle of shipping with AI. Ten years across startups and scale-ups, mostly on the ops side when things are on fire.
Posts by Anna Rivera.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical comparison of Claude Code and Cursor for 50k+ file repositories. Latency benchmarks, refactoring costs, and how they handle circular dependencies.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical comparison of RAG-based indexing versus agentic file-system access for repositories exceeding one million lines of code.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Reality Check
A technical stress test of Claude Code and Cursor on a 1.2M LOC repository to measure latency, cost, and hallucination rates in legacy environments.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Senior Engineering Reality Check
Stop chasing hype. Here is how Claude Code and Cursor actually handle context, regressions, and complex refactors in large repositories.
AI for Debugging Production Incidents: A Triage Workflow
Stop treating LLMs like magic. This is a technical guide to using AI for triaging production regressions without shipping more bugs.
AI Pair Programming Workflow: Managing Technical Debt and Context
Stop chasing velocity at the cost of maintainability. Here is how to build an AI pair programming workflow that actually reduces technical debt.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Staff Engineer Review
A technical breakdown of Claude Code and Cursor for handling massive repositories without causing a production incident or a messy rollback.
Using AI for Kubernetes Troubleshooting: A Production Guide
Stop dumping raw logs into ChatGPT. Learn how to build a secure, cost-effective pipeline for using ai for kubernetes troubleshooting with GitOps validation.
AI Ops Tools Comparison: Beyond the Automated Hype
A staff engineer's teardown of AIOps. We look at where tools like Groq and Selzee actually help, and where they just add noise to your on-call rotation.