REA (Reverse Engineer Anything): What It Is, How I Used It
What REA is, how it works, why it went viral, and how to set it up on Windows, plus the app I rebuilt with it in .NET 10 and why code is no longer the moat.
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What REA is, how it works, why it went viral, and how to set it up on Windows, plus the app I rebuilt with it in .NET 10 and why code is no longer the moat.
I gave Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra the same invoice prompt, rendered all 10 templates with IronPDF on .NET 10 and scored them in C#. Both passed, and one print CSS rule was the only real difference.
MongoDB ships 7 official Agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. I read all 366KB: what they change for .NET, plus a copy-paste prompt for each.
Run a .NET 10 Web API on a VPS you own instead of App Service. Full Dokploy guide on a DigitalOcean droplet: managed Postgres, Valkey, Cloudflare R2, and SSL.
AI agents default to AutoMapper, MediatR and MassTransit, all now commercial. Verified 2026 licensing, NuGet MCP Server, and guardrails that fail the build.
Build an MCP server in C# with the official ModelContextProtocol SDK 2.1 on .NET 10. Real tools, stdio and HTTP transport, plus what actually changed in v2.0.
Thirty advanced Claude Code tips for .NET developers: goal loops, hooks, subagents, worktrees, batch migrations, and model selection, all verified for 2026.
11 copy-paste Claude Code prompts for .NET developers: architecture, scaffolding, EF Core, testing and Aspire, each with guardrails that keep output clean.
Teach Claude Code your conventions once. Build a custom skill that scaffolds a full vertical slice in .NET 10 - endpoint, handler, validator, EF config, and test - your way.
Run parallel Claude Code sessions on isolated .NET branches with Git worktree support: the --worktree flag, branching from a PR, subagent isolation, cleanup.
Build reusable skills in Claude Code with SKILL.md to automate .NET workflows: frontmatter reference, arguments, subagent delegation, and 5 production patterns.
What every file in the .claude folder does: CLAUDE.md, rules, skills, agents, commands, settings.json and the global ~/.claude/, on a real .NET setup.