How I Created My Voice Reference With AI (And Why It's Not Cheating)
I've been writing online since 2011. Fourteen years of blog posts, technical tutorials, personal reflections, and half-finished drafts sitting in folders I'm afraid to open.
Mario Giancini
Software & Self Engineer
I build AI systems and ship creative tools.
&I write about applying engineering thinking to yourself.
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I stumbled on this pattern while building automation commands for Claude Code and Cursor. The problem: my AI agents needed credentials for browser automation, but I obviously couldn't commit those credentials to git.
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