Chris Dzombak

… has too many hobbies.

An Introduction —

Hi there. I'm Chris.

👋🏻 During the day I’m a software developer at May Mobility. I’ve worked recently at an array of cybersecurity companies, and before that, from 2013–2017, at The New York Times. I graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012 with a degree in Computer Science Engineering.

I enjoy cycling & mountain biking, photography, hiking & backpacking, birding, and generally spending time in nature. Aside from software engineering, nerdy hobbies include electronics, 3D printing, and geeking about weather, coffee, and theatre.

This is my website. Please have a look around.

This is me in a park near the Huron River in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs

It's not news that many tech companies are encouraging or even requiring use of LLM coding tools like Claude Code. While reading Sean Goedecke's post about bad code at big companies, it occurred to me that tech companies are happy to have their software engineers use …

Streamlining my user-level CLAUDE.md

This post follows up on my post about getting good results from Claude Code. I've recently streamlined my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md based on: * Informal observations about what Claude does and doesn't do well * A desire to avoid conflicting with principles that seem to be built into …

Getting Good Results from Claude Code: Writing Good Prompts

Key to getting good results from Claude Code (and similar LLM programming tools) is writing good prompts. This is one area where your own programming expertise comes into play; you need to use it to provide guidance to the LLM and nudge it in the right direction. Good prompts are …

Give your LLM Coding Tools Their Own Tools

Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows LLMs to call "tools" that can do anything: interact with your filesystem, search the Web, hit an external API, or even help guide the LLM through a structured problem-solving process. A single MCP server provides one or more tools; for example, a research …

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