Allan Im · Software engineer · Toronto

Bringing your ideas to life through software.

Twenty years building systems that scale, mostly in Java. The tools are changing fast — but getting the domain model right still matters more than any of them.

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Jun 7, 2026Don't outsource the thinkingDevelopers are starting to refuse to work without AI. The tools were never the problem — handing over the part that thinks is.aiengineeringcraft
May 30, 2026Modeling the domain firstWhy I reach for the domain model before the framework, the database, or the API.engineeringdomain modeling

// what I'm working on

live from GitHub & WakaTime

GitHub contributions

3,626 · past year

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Commits 83.4%Reviews 10.5%Pull requests 5.8%Issues 0.3%

AI activity

on WakaTime

$4.7Kspend · 7d

Opus

$3,958 · 15,160 lines

Fable

$683 · 7,588 lines

Others

$74 · 1,469 lines · Sonnet, GPT, Claude-Code, Gemini, Claude

cost share · 7 models · actual spend

</> line changes99% AI · 24,217 ai / 220 human

Tokens

699.6M697.2M in · 2.3M out

Prompts

3947.1K chars avg

Sessions

83~5 prompts each

AI pairing

21h 10m33.1% of coding time

Coding activity

17h 11m · last 7 days

Languages

Markdown30.22%Bash23.9%YAML10.85%Java10.78%SQL6.04%Shell4.66%JSON4.31%Astro3.81%Git Config1.73%JavaScript1.46%XML1.04%Git0.38%Properties0.31%Java Properties0.27%CSS0.12%TypeScript0.08%D0.04%

Editors & Tools

Claude Code42.1%Orca22.87%SparkDesktop6.74%Unknown Editor4.84%GitHub4.51%DataGrip3.39%ClickUp2.53%Excel2.53%Slack2.22%VS Code1.74%iTerm21.33%Warp1.28%Fork0.97%Notion0.82%IntelliJ IDEA0.58%ChatGPT0.52%Codex Vscode0.39%Notes0.26%cmux0.21%Zed0.17%Copilot CLI0.01%

Operating systems

Mac100%