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

3,629 · past year

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Commits 83.3%Reviews 10.5%Pull requests 5.9%Issues 0.3%

AI activity

on WakaTime

$4.1Kspend · 7d

Opus

$3,701 · 10,036 lines

Fable

$352 · 796 lines

Others

$70 · 1,184 lines · Sonnet, GPT, Claude-Code, Gemini, Claude

cost share · 7 models · actual spend

</> line changes98% AI · 12,016 ai / 203 human

Tokens

616.8M615.2M in · 1.6M out

Prompts

3065.1K chars avg

Sessions

56~5 prompts each

AI pairing

14h 50m18.6% of coding time

Coding activity

12h 16m · last 7 days

Languages

Markdown29.6%Bash25.33%Java12.8%YAML6.6%SQL5.67%Svelte4.47%Shell4.27%Git Config3.33%JSON2.8%JavaScript2.6%XML0.6%Git0.53%Properties0.4%Java Properties0.4%TypeScript0.33%Text0.2%D0.07%

Editors & Tools

Orca36.25%Claude Code32.95%SparkDesktop6.45%Unknown Editor4.08%GitHub3.8%Excel3.41%ClickUp3.07%DataGrip2.18%Slack1.43%iTerm21.29%Warp1.1%Notion0.86%VS Code0.8%Zed0.7%IntelliJ IDEA0.47%ChatGPT0.43%Fork0.39%Codex Vscode0.31%cmux0.01%Copilot CLI0.01%OMP0.01%

Operating systems

Mac100%