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Hunter Wiginton

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I started in a full-time non-dev job, taught myself to code, became a frontend dev, now full-stack in the AI space at one of the largest software companies in the world. I ship side projects in public under the Hackastak umbrella: CLIs, AI agent tooling, workflow automations, and digital products on Gumroad.

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Featured Projects

Side projects under the Hackastak umbrella. Built in public, shipped on weekends, and paid for in coffee. The CLI you can install today; the apparel you can wear tomorrow.

FlintBrain

A second-brain note-taking app built around the PARA method — organize everything into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. Rich-text editing, task lists, and fast capture for frictionless thinking.

Next.jsTypeScriptTipTapDrizzle ORMSQLite

RepoG

CLI-first, local AI tool to explore, search, and understand your GitHub repositories using semantic search and LLM-powered insights — your codebase, queryable from the terminal.

GoCobraSQLitesqlite-vecLLM

BillScribe

Full-stack invoice creation and management tool. Build invoices, export them to PDF, and bill clients through Stripe, backed by Supabase auth and storage.

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseStripeDrizzle ORM

// Other Noteworthy Projects

Staksmith

ProtoFlow

Hackastak Homebrew Tap

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From The HackaStak

Honest, no-BS recommendations on the tools and practices worth your time. Developer tooling, AI x dev workflow, engineering best practices, and career notes from a self-taught dev still in the trenches.

Jun 3, 202613 min read

No-Code in 2026: How to Ship Apps Without Writing Code

AI tools finally deliver on what drag-and-drop builders promised Remember when “no-code” meant dragging boxes around in Webflow until you hit a wall? You’d build 80% of what you…

programmingartificial-intelligencesoftware-developmentproductivityno-code
May 27, 20268 min read

Weekly Notes Beat Daily Notes: The Sustainable Way to Never Forget Anything

Stop guilt-tripping yourself into note-taking burnout Image generated by AI I’ve tried every note-taking system. Daily journals. Morning pages. Bullet journals. Apps that promise…

software-engineeringnotetakingsoftware-developmentproductivityprogramming
May 20, 20269 min read

AI Coding Assistants Aren’t Magicians: Why Pattern Matching Can’t Replace Engineering Judgment

The technology is transformative. The hype is dangerous. “Software engineering is dead.” “AI will replace all coders by 2027.” “You don’t need to understand the code anymore.” I’ve…

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May 13, 20266 min read

Debugging AI Agent Hallucinations: A Checklist from Production

The systematic approach I use after building agents that process thousands of requests daily Your AI agent worked perfectly in testing. Then production happened — and suddenly it’s…

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Experience

From a non-dev full-time job to full-stack engineering at a major AI software company — the timeline of the pivot, plus the side-project habit that came along for the ride.

Work Experience

2024 — Present

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Major AI Software Company

Building production AI agent tooling, MCP integrations, and Claude SDK-powered workflows for enterprise teams. Day-job lessons feed The HackaStak's AI x developer pillar.

TypeScriptClaude SDKMCPNext.jsPython
2022 — 2024

Frontend Engineer

Previous Co.

Owned the customer-facing application — design system, accessibility, and performance work. Mentored teammates and shipped the features that moved the metrics.

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTailwind
2020 — 2022

Self-Taught Career Pivot

First Engineering Role

Started in a non-dev full-time role, taught myself to code on nights and weekends, then moved into engineering full-time. The original Hackastak side-project habit was forged here.

JavaScriptHTML/CSSReactGit

Self-Taught

No CS degree. The foundation got built in side projects, OSS, and shipping in public. Bootcamp grads, juniors, and self-taught devs are exactly who The HackaStak is for.

  • >Published CLIs to Homebrew
  • >Contributing to MCP / agent ecosystem
  • >Cross-posted essays on Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode

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Core Skills

Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind

Backend

Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL

AI / Agents

Claude SDK, MCP, OpenAI SDK, prompting

Tooling

Neovim, tmux, Ghostty, Homebrew