Using AI to Build Your Year-End Performance Case

Most engineers lose their appraisals in June. Not because they underperformed — because they forgot what they shipped. Your manager tracks 8-12 reports across 40 weeks. If you walk into December with "I think I did good work?" you've already lost. The problem is mechanical. Brag documents require weekly discipline most people don't have. Miss one week, friction compounds, you stop forever. Claude can automate this if you build the right scaffold. This article walks through a working system: a ba