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Field notes from production work: Xperience by Kentico architecture, AI-assisted engineering with Claude Code, and commerce built for AI agents.

36 Hours: I Let an Agent Audit, Redesign, and Reposition My Kentico Site cms architecture
Jul 10, 2026 - Mike Rahel

36 Hours: I Let an Agent Audit, Redesign, and Reposition My Kentico Site

The day after installing Kentico's KentiCopilot MCP tooling, I let the agent actually use it: reading my live content model, fixing real bugs, redesig...

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I handed AI a Kentico audit — it upgraded my production site in minutes case study
Apr 23, 2026 - Mike Rahel

I handed AI a Kentico audit — it upgraded my production site in minutes

I upgraded my Xperience by Kentico site to the latest refresh in 10 minutes — Sentinel for Xperience by Kentico exported a JSON report, the AI did the...

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I Asked an AI to Buy Me Electrolytes. It Paid in Bitcoin. integration
Apr 13, 2026 - Mike Rahel

I Asked an AI to Buy Me Electrolytes. It Paid in Bitcoin.

We partnered with Salt of the Earth, makers of premium electrolyte mixes, as Lightning Enable's first Shopify integration and now Claude AI can buy re...

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How I Used AI to Add Search Exclusions Across a Multi-Site CMS in Just a Few Hours enterprise web development
Apr 02, 2026 - Mike Rahel

How I Used AI to Add Search Exclusions Across a Multi-Site CMS in Just a Few Hours

A developer's honest account of collaborating with Claude Code on a cross-cutting feature that touched 5 indexing strategies, 3 projects, and 8 conten...

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L402 Broke at the Worst Possible Moment. Here's What We Learned. lightning network
Mar 19, 2026 - Mike Rahel

L402 Broke at the Worst Possible Moment. Here's What We Learned.

During a live demo for Lightning Labs, our L402 payment flow failed and ate 50,270 sats. The post-mortem revealed a fundamental gap in the L402 protoc...

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How I Spent My Christmas"Vacation" Building an Entire Kentico Website with an AI Coding Assistant e-commerce
Jan 09, 2026 - Mike Rahel

How I Spent My Christmas"Vacation" Building an Entire Kentico Website with an AI Coding Assistant

Spoiler: There Was No Vacation

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When Your CMS Hosts Four Websites and AI Becomes Your Co-Pilot xperience by kentico
Dec 03, 2025 - Mike Rahel

When Your CMS Hosts Four Websites and AI Becomes Your Co-Pilot

There's a peculiar moment that happens when you're knee-deep in Azure KeyVault certificate configurations at 3 PM on a Tuesday, managing authenticatio...

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