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

3,645 · past year

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Commits 83.2%Reviews 10.5%Pull requests 5.9%Issues 0.3%

AI activity

on WakaTime

$4.4Kspend · 7d

Opus

$3,965 · 15,511 lines

Fable

$352 · 796 lines

Others

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

cost share · 7 models · actual spend

</> line changes99% AI · 17,491 ai / 203 human

Tokens

653.5M651.7M in · 1.8M out

Prompts

3374.6K chars avg

Sessions

60~6 prompts each

AI pairing

16h 50m22.8% of coding time

Coding activity

13h 49m · last 7 days

Languages

Markdown31.22%Bash23.17%Java12.1%YAML10.02%SQL5.04%Shell4.49%JSON4.33%Git Config3.01%JavaScript2.85%Svelte1.53%XML0.55%Git0.49%Properties0.38%Java Properties0.33%TypeScript0.27%Text0.16%D0.05%

Editors & Tools

Claude Code38.97%Orca28.4%SparkDesktop6.89%Unknown Editor4.6%GitHub4.1%Excel3.49%ClickUp3.31%DataGrip2.36%Slack1.55%iTerm21.36%Warp1.12%Notion0.93%VS Code0.9%IntelliJ IDEA0.5%ChatGPT0.46%Fork0.42%Codex Vscode0.34%Zed0.26%cmux0.01%Copilot CLI0.01%OMP0.01%Air0.01%

Operating systems

Mac100%