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

3,658 · 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

$3,663 · 10,174 lines

Fable

$382 · 845 lines

Others

$70 · 1,176 lines · Sonnet, GPT, Claude-Code, Gemini, Claude

cost share · 7 models · actual spend

</> line changes100% AI · 12,195 ai / 52 human

Tokens

604.8M603M in · 1.8M out

Prompts

3098.3K chars avg

Sessions

64~5 prompts each

AI pairing

15h 04m18% of coding time

Coding activity

11h 50m · last 7 days

Languages

Markdown36.04%Java14.75%Bash13.45%YAML6.83%JavaScript6.12%Svelte4.6%Shell4.46%Git Config3.96%SQL3.24%JSON2.88%TypeScript1.08%Git0.58%Python0.5%XML0.43%Properties0.43%Java Properties0.43%Text0.14%D0.07%

Editors & Tools

Orca37.44%Claude Code34.03%SparkDesktop7.37%GitHub3.65%Excel3.47%ClickUp3.19%iTerm22.01%Unknown Editor1.71%DataGrip1.35%Slack1.05%Warp1%Notion0.8%VS Code0.75%Zed0.7%ChatGPT0.47%IntelliJ IDEA0.43%Fork0.31%Codex Vscode0.27%cmux0.01%OMP0.01%

Operating systems

Mac100%