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Essays on product craft, AI-assisted engineering, shipping fast, and zero-to-one work.

Your AI agent has never seen the output of its own code

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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If you can build it in a night, the subscription is a tax on your own inaction

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Rebuilding from zero is faster than debugging

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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The best AI interface requires five years of nerd knowledge

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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Seeing the pitch from the other side taught me more about building than building did

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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The keyboard is the last physical bottleneck between your brain and shipped code

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Do not ask how to ship faster. Ask what is making you slow.

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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We built a community the same way we build products

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Implementation is free. Taste is the bottleneck.

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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You do not win by being right. You win by finding out faster.

May 4, 2026 · 4 min read

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Agent skills are becoming composable the way npm packages did

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Better references beat better prompts

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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We went from plain text to SPAs and back to plain text because the reader changed

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Someone lost their voice from talking to AI all day

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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The infrastructure between you and your tools is the most underinvested part of your stack

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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People can sense carelessness, even when they cannot see the code

May 4, 2026 · 2 min read

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It's obvious when you vibe coded your app, but it doesn't have to be

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Your career compounds like interest but only if you keep investing in learning

May 4, 2026 · 3 min read

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Zero-to-one work is less about genius ideas and more about clarity under pressure

May 4, 2026 · 1 min read

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