Chen AI Psychologist

I am in my early 40s today and life hits different today compared to a decade ago. Optimistic still but more realistic in many ways. This blog post is touching a topic that I have been less eager to talk about publicly. However, the impact it has had on me is undeniable so I will talk about it. Being someone who build for a living, I’m used to learning new things to add perspectives at the very least. When the AI boom happened with ChatGPT 3.5, I shrugged it off as buzzword, nothing more. The model replied my message but that was it. Fast forward to today, I don’t think I can go back to not having AI/LLM in my daily life. ...

September 10, 2025 · Batista Harahap

Getting Serious With LLM Assistance

Great to be back writing the blog. I have just recently (yesterday) updated the blog with a new design template. To my surprise, the switch was effortless thanks to Claude Code. Found a few templating stuffs I wanted to make changes for and Claude did this impeccably. In actual fact, Claude Code has been a main stayer in my day-to-day coding work. I took out a 15 inch portable monitor just for it and positioned it below the primary monitor. The second monitor serves as the Claude Code terminal. This helped a lot, the focus now is bounded to the second monitor in comparison with multi tasking with the primary monitor only. The primary monitor now becomes a monitoring monitor of Claude Code changes. ...

August 18, 2025 · Batista Harahap

SleekChat: Research to Production in 1 Week

This is a writing about getting things done more than it is a showcase of a new business and the tech empowering it. Within this, an attempt to explain the why will also be written. But before all that, I’m going to try to look cool first so get ready for some cringe moments. Vibe Coding Hell yeah! But not in a way most will vibe with. Being a backend guy, giving up control is not my nature although the web frontend is vibed. As with any experiments, it started with an idea then proof of concept, hit walls then pushed through. Here are the core tech stack to build SleekChat: ...

April 25, 2025 · Batista Harahap